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Pay-when-paid: You know what I mean, guv?
Shepherd Construction tried to rely on a pay-when-paid clause to not pay its subcontractor, William Hare. Problem was, it wasn鈥檛 well drafted 鈥� so would the courts help it out?
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Religious discrimination laws: But I'm a shaman!
A recent case has extended the laws protecting employees from religious discrimination to those who hold any kind of 鈥榗ogent and serious belief鈥�
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Schools in danger
While there are inevitable criticisms that can be levelled at Labour鈥檚 record, we recognise that architecture has generally done well under Labour
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Expert determination: A short cut through a swamp
Plumping for expert determination to resolve a dispute may sound like a quick, cheap, hassle-free alternative to adjudication or litigation. But it ain鈥檛 necessarily so
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CommentA fool and his client鈥檚 money
The last of Robert Adam鈥檚 seven deadly sins of architecture deals with profligacy 鈥� in other words, the tendency of big-name designers to put their artistic vision before their client鈥檚 wallet 鈥�
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Nick Raynsford: Let me mark your card
Now the election is over we can roll up our sleeves and get ready for the next one. But we do have a year or so of coalition government first.
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Commercial property: We can鈥檛 go on like this
Commercial development is inching its way towards a fragile recovery but the landscape has changed forever and we will need to rethink our way back to prosperity
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CommentBSF is dead. So now what?
Regardless of who won the election, 星空传媒 Schools for the Future was doomed. But it can adapt into something new 鈥� and so can the architects that do it
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Hansom: Coming to my bash?
Quarrels over ways of measuring embodied energy (no, really), communication breakdowns, last-ditch efforts to prevent desertion 鈥� oh, why can鈥檛 we just be Friends?
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The new austerity begins now
One of the side effects of spending five days in limbo after the general election is that some of the construction industry might have got the funny idea that nothing much had changed
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All things considered
Adjudicators have it drummed into them that they should decide the dispute in the notice of adjudication. Here鈥檚 a case that shows there is some room for flexibility
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Gus Alexander: Prince Charles the wrecker
As if dealing with planners for months on end wasn鈥檛 painful enough, we now have to calculate a last-minute intervention from a prince addicted to retro architecture
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Brookfield vs Mott MacDonald: Wembley stadium
Mr Justice Coulson鈥檚 judgment is a reminder that courts are keen to avoid excessive costs
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The New Government 鈥� Efficiency and a Drive for Better Public Services
The waiting is over and an historic coalition government has been formed. In what was a dramatic evening, David Cameron stepped through the doors of Downing Street as Prime Minister, with former rival Nick Clegg taking his place as deputy.However, with unemployment at its highest level since 2004 and a ...
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Construction redundancies remain high while vacancies remain low
As the real business of governing the UK begins to wind up again, the latest employment figures will do little to cheer the incoming government as it prepares to put chalk marks on where deep public sector cuts will be made.The overall figures showed the rise of unemployment continuing above ...
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Up all night. And for what?
I just got off the phone with a contact who was wandering aimlessly around London, trying to find somewhere to buy lunch. He sounded drunk. Or like he was on a concoction of extremely strong painkillers.鈥淣o, no I鈥檓 fine,鈥� he replied when I expressed some concern over the fact he ...
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Scenarios in a hung parliament
Here are some possible scenarios in a hung parliament but first the certainties: Whoever wins, there is going to be a time of policy review which will result in many Government capital projects being delayed for a few months until priorities are resetOne of the first jobs for the new ...
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A question of values
We read about the sports hall at Dunraven school in Lambeth (26 March,) with surprise at how much someone is prepared to pay for a sports hall and amazement that you were heralding it as good value.
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CommentThis one鈥檚 on you
Tony Bingham聽Tolent clauses, which make the party that refers an adjudication pay all the legal costs, are to be outlawed by the Construction Act 鈥� but a judge has just got there first