A more than trifling matter: Court of Appeal considers the meaning of practical completion

Practical completion is easier to recognise than define. It is perhaps for this reason that there is no hard and fast legal definition, unless of course the parties choose to amend their contract to specifically define it. In the recent case of Mears Ltd v Costplan Services (South East) Ltd and others, the Court of Appeal considered the meaning of practical completion on appeal from the TCC’s first instance decision in December 2018.