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The lesser-spotted contract
Last month, Tony Bingham said construction lawyers would agree with the Court of Appeal鈥檚 ruling in SWI vs P&I. Well, Stuart Pemble doesn鈥檛, and that is because he doesn鈥檛 really believe in fixed-price deals
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CommentDo you have breakdown cover?
Rolls-Royce didn鈥檛 take out joint-names insurance to cover construction of its new plant. When a leaking pipe caused 拢400,000 of damage, it insisted the policy wouldn鈥檛 have covered negligence. Not everyone agreed
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CommentAt full blast
A turbulent week as Richard McCarthy delivers a stormy press briefing, a furious homeowner takes his revenge on rogue builders, and abseilers are dropped in to lighten things up a bit 鈥�
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CommentFrankly, it was all a waste of energy
After watching two assessors make a right dog鈥檚 dinner of measuring the energy performance of his house, Jeff Howell suspects a little extra training may be in order
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CommentLet鈥檚 stop ignoring all this talent
The news that the industry has cut the number of apprenticeships by over a quarter this year should make every one of us hang our heads in shame (news, page 13).
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A snag in the process
The claimant, Thomas Vale, sought a declaration that a withholding notice was invalid. The contract was a JCT Standard Form of 星空传媒 Contract with Contractor鈥檚 Design 1998 edition incorporating amendments 1-5 and further amendments set out in the employer鈥檚 requirements. The works comprised the construction of 24 apartments. A dispute ...
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CommentYou do the sums
Hands up if this sounds like a silly argument to you: spend millions of pounds to cut x tonnes of carbon or spend a fraction of that to save the same x tonnes of carbon?
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Riddle me this
If you see something going wrong on a building site, do you have a legal duty to tell someone? This is a simple question with no simple answer, says Rupert Choat. But here鈥檚 the latest thinking 鈥�
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CommentA place in the sun
This week we stroll along the balmy streets of Barcelona while Jack Pringle meets his adoring public in Paris 鈥� both of which sound preferable to watching a 1-1 draw in Carlisle 鈥�
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CommentThank you, m鈥檒ud
Judge Coulson ruled recently that a court can pause a case and direct the parties to adjudicate their differences away. Which, apart from anything else, is a real vote of confidence in adjudication 鈥�
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MingleMinded musings
They say there is no such thing as bad publicity, but I can鈥檛 help thinking your article, The undercover networker (3 August, page 40), may have given a negative impression.
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CommentIn praise of mess
Our cities and townscapes have to reflect the messy unpredictability of those who live in them. Attempts to impose order by micro-managing every masterplan will end in lifeless homogeneity 鈥� which is the enemy of beauty
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CommentLimited 鈥� within limits
Directors often think that they are immune from liability for costs incurred by their companies. Listen and learn. The entrepreneur here finished up with a massive legal bill, not to mention a wigging from the judge
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CommentA lesson in realism
Generating 60% of our schools鈥� energy from on-site renewable sources may sound like a great idea, but the figures don鈥檛 add up. Bill Watts takes today鈥檚 maths class
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Life on the edge
Your leader column (3 August, page 3) could not be more apt. On a Sunday morning a few weeks ago, I had to inform some scaffolders who were working on a building on a busy street corner in central London about the dangers of working on the scaffold with no ...
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Spot the difference
Suzanne Reeves tells us in her article extolling the virtues of JCT2005 (20 July, page 54): 鈥淎n amendment to the JCT2005 forms has already been issued for the CDM regulations 鈥� CIS amendments to all the other contracts in the suite will be included in the reprints of the 2005 ...
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