The subject of the master work – „The liability of the parties in legal construction relationship“.

Keywords: construction, legal construction relationships, constuction contract, subconstruction contract, client, contractor, subcontractor, liability.

Efficaciousness of the construction process for the most part depends on how clear and comprehensible the construction contract and legal acts define rights and obligations of the parties and divide between them risk and liability for an improper execution of the obligations. Taking it into consideration, in this work there is complex analysis of the legal basis for liability and problems, which are related to application of the liability.

The first part of the work reveals conception of legal construction relationships. In the second part there is rewiev of the legal acts provided as well as the concepts of the parties.The author studies the conception of the construction contract, it‘s substantial conditions and relation between construction and subconstruction contracts. The third part of the work is committed to comprehensive analysis of the liability of the client, contractor and subcontractor: it reveals liability specific, basis and conditions of use, cases when liability can be reduced or avoided, provides the review of the Suprime Court of Lithuania practice, that was formed by solving cases for application of liability in legal construction relationships.

The author, after accomplishing analysis of legal act, law doctrine, the practice of the Suprime Court of Lithuania, gets to the main conclusion, according which the hypothesis of work is confirmed – the liability of construction contract parties comes into existence only under basis, provided in legal acts and construction contract.

Raktažodžiai: legal construction relationships, constuction contract, client, contractor, liability