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Do we need more housing?
Your leader (29 June, page 3) called for a national hearts-and-minds campaign to explain the need for extra housing. It might help if you first questioned whether there really is such a need.
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CommentJCT sleeps with the fishes
Standard forms are supposed to make things easy, but that wasn鈥檛 exactly the builder鈥檚 experience in Reinwood vs Brown. Maybe it鈥檚 time the whole lot were taken for a ride 鈥�
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CommentWeb watch 鈥� Ecomarket sweep
Fear not specifiers, says Alex Smith. To help meet the barrage of sustainable standards that has been published recently, there is an assortment of green product resources on the internet
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CommentSelf-harm for developers
Developers always try to impose the same liabilities on their contractors that they themselves are under. This is at best futile and at worst a danger to their own interests
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CommentGordon Brown vs the housing crisis
There wasn鈥檛 too much we hadn鈥檛 heard before in Gordon Brown鈥檚 preview of the next Queen鈥檚 speech, and it was pretty short on detail, but the message came over loud and clear: if his predecessor鈥檚 top priorities were education, education, education, his are housing, housing and housing.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Martin Chambers rejoices in the tuneful offerings of Birmingham International Convention Centre but deplores the Soviet-style design of Leeds鈥� Quarry House
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CommentYoung blood
Other professions may be more appealing to children, but they don鈥檛 all have their own GCSE or conduct multimillion-pound projects on school premises. It鈥檚 time construction made these factors count
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Quite a bind
Your last editorial had a number of good suggestions for increasing the rate of housebuilding. I have another 鈥� easier removal of covenants restricting development. I have a large site adjacent to my house that has planning permission for a detached house. My neighbours have a covenant that restricts each ...
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After the event
This House of Lords decision concerns the assessment of damages to be awarded to an injured party to a contract that has been breached before the occurrence of an event which would give rise to a right to cancel (in this case, the Second Gulf War) and before the contract ...
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CommentRiverbank tales
The film This is Tomorrow about the history of the Festival Hall prompted thoughts of yesteryear for Alex Smith. Luckily, there are some excellent web archives to help him trip down memory lane
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A standard position
Reinwood Ltd appealed the court鈥檚 finding that L Brown & Sons Ltd had validly determined its employment under the contract on the grounds that Reinwood had continued to fail to pay the amount properly due under an interim certificate by the final date for payment. Reinwood and Brown entered into ...
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CommentSo where are we now?
So Brown鈥檚 government is to be 鈥渁ggressively pro-business鈥�, according to John Hutton, the business secretary.
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Mediation under the microscope
Enthusiasts will tell stories to show that mediation is a cure-all while others remain unconvinced. Nicholas Gould summarises the findings of a survey that goes beyond the merely anecdotal
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CommentExclude the dissenters
I would like to comment on Apocalypse Cow, the column by Richard Steer (13 April, page 34.)