![]() It is particularly popular with developers wishing to have one ‘backside to kick’. The most popular contract published by the JCT is the Design and Build Contract. ![]() Today the JCT is a limited company publishing a range of contracts for major projects, minor works and household repairs. ![]() Its unique quality was that its contracts reflected an industry consensus on how risk should be allocated between the different parties. The JCT was established in 1931 and for many years it was the only body publishing standard forms of contract. The truth is that it is a committee, comprised of representatives from construction industry bodies and set up to draft and publish standard building contracts for the industry. Some outsiders assumed that this body was some sort of a court. Some years ago I served on a body known as the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT). Here Barrister, Professor Rudi Klein, provides an introduction to JCT contracts.
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