This session addresses the following topics: • decennial liability: challenges to international contractors and consultants; • which jurisdictions impose decennial liability, which do not; • decennial liability in a range of civil law jurisdictions (including France, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Indonesia, Latin America, the United Arab Emirates); • if it applies, what types of defect does it cover, can you contract out of it; • is a judgment based on decennial liability in a jurisdiction where it exists but excluded in the contract, enforceable in other jurisdictions where it doesn’t exist; • are they allowed in all jurisdictions; and • enforceability.