The Project Delay Suit: The Court Route and Its Construction
When a delayed project can no longer be resolved by negotiation, the remaining route is the court, and the strength of the suit depends on its construction. The Civil Code assembles a full ladder for a delay suit: the setting of an additional period and refusal, the claim of damages, the parties’ rights of termination, interest, and limitation. Each step requires its own conditions, and skipping steps makes the suit untenable.
The structure of the suit is assembled according to this ladder: first the breach and its character are fixed; then the documentation of the additional period or warning is presented; then the damage, actual loss and lost income; and finally the formulation of the claim: performance, damages, interest or the consequences of refusal. The evidence block is built by the same logic: the schedule and its amendments, the letters on the additional period or warning, the acts of the actual volume of performance and the damage calculations must be linked to one another consistently. The court checks how far each claim corresponds to this chain, and a broken chain weakens the whole suit.