Head office overheads
The cost of running your business, such as offices and staff, that a delay can leave unrecovered.
by Jack Butler-Kettle · About 1 min readShare
Further detail
Read this alongside SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol and Walter Lilly & Company Ltd v Mackay [2012] EWHC 1773 (TCC).
Head office overheads are business-wide costs such as central administration, office facilities and management. They differ from project preliminaries. A delay may affect recovery of those costs, but a formula result does not prove entitlement, causation or actual loss, and overlapping recovery must be avoided.
Support the claimed loss with accounts and evidence of the delay's effect. Delay and disruption cost recovery can help organise the financial evidence alongside the contractual basis.
Sources
- Delay and Disruption Protocol, 2nd edition, February 2017. Society of Construction Law.
- Walter Lilly & Company Ltd v Mackay & Anor [2012] EWHC 1773 (TCC) (High Court, Technology and Construction Court, 11 July 2012). The National Archives, Find Case Law.