All Comment articles – Page 683

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    Trespassers may be injured

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The appellant was a police officer who was investigating a suspected stolen trailer that had been parked in the service yard of a supermarket in the centre of Glastonbury. He entered the respondent’s property which adjoined the service area, in order, eventually, to take up a position overlooking the service ...

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    The shadow of Hatfield

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Faced with the prospect of a tough new corporate killing bill in the autumn, Norton Rose has done some research into how the construction industry expects to be affected

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    Hansom

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    These are the ramblings of the diarist Hansom, his one-week mission to explore new gossip, to seek out embarrassing facts and amusing trivia, to boldly go …

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    Failure is not an option

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The Quality Mark can be resurrected, yes – and it must.

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    Two cheers for Mr Brown

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    So it was good news for construction on Monday.

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    Wonders & blunders

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    We walked for two days to find an inspiring eco-lodge, but just walked in circles at an ill-fated French airport

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    Bleeding edge design

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The construction industry is in a state of permanent revolution, which puts a lot of pressure on those of us who have to build things

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    A lovely bit of judging

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    What is a judge to do when an adjudicator has clearly made a mistake but there are no grounds to rectify it? Judge Thornton took an unusual route to get the right result

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    No beautiful swan

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The government should accept that the Quality Mark is a dead duck and let it sink without trace (2 July, page 15). This may well have been a manifesto commitment, but it will be a manifesto embarrassment at the election if taxpayers’ money continues to be squandered.The original intention was ...

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    Murphy’s law in action

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    What do you do if you find that life on site cruelly punctures the naive hopes in your tender? Well, you try to get the client to pay more, don’t you? Yes, but how?

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    Regulation wear

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    This was an appeal against a decision that an employer did not have a duty to an employee under the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 Regulations 7 (1). The employer was a lorry driver collecting milk from farms. He had been supplied with steel capped safety boots, which ...

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    Lend Lease replies

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Your feature article "Down Under" (2 July, pages 24-27) demands a response, if only to put your readers' minds at rest that Bovis Lend Lease is not for sale.

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    Howdy partner

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    I sympathise with the views expressed by Oliver Raymond (Letters, 2 July, page 32) regarding unscrupulous main contractors who, under the guise of partnering, still persist in going to the open market in an effort to drive down cost.However, I can provide a simple answer. Seek out ...

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    Hansom

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    A special issue on the difficulty of transporting information from one head to another without something dreadful happening on the way

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    Lawyers, guns and money

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    No matter how strange foreign cultures may be, almost all are governed by the same legal principles as English law – which is good news for us all

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    Don't, don't you want me

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    The JCT appears to have rejected the idea of incorporating the SCL delay and disruption supplement into its contracts – which has provoked a bit of a debate …

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    Farrell & Nash (deceased)

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Sir Terry Farrell's grand plan for a central promenade linking Primrose Hill to the South Bank captures a little of a Georgian ancestor's grand vision

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    Damned if you do …

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Doubts are growing about whether adjudication can deal with professional negligence claims, the reason being that it struggles to cope with expert witnesses

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    Capper's way

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Professor Philip Capper has just made a super speech about adjudication, about judges, about lawyers … and especially about his girlfriend Iris

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    Jarvis on the brink

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    There won't be too many tears shed in the construction industry this week over the spectacle of Jarvis teetering on the edge of the precipice.