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CommentPeter rogers
While the construction industry is building T5, T5 is rebuilding the construction industry. Let me explain 鈥�
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CommentUp the workers
This is another everyday story of self-employment and rights and conditions at work. Redrow thought it had a contract and that was it. Wrong, wrong wrong!
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TV trial was the only way
I read with interest your article on the public image of housebuilders and the grillings they receive on consumer programmes such as Watchdog (16 April, page 42).
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A taxing issue
The defendant had a contract to remove about 425,000 tonnes of material from the site of a new warehouse and lorry park. The claimant sought to require the defendant to register for the aggregates levy pursuant to Section 24(2) of the Finance Act 2001 ("the Act"). The defendant maintained that ...
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Mirror image
He probably won't be frogmarched from his office sans jacket, but Kevin Hyde, Jarvis' chief executive, may be about to suffer a similar fate to that which befell the former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan last Friday: the prospect of being ousted by his company's investors (see news).
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Ignore the moaners
Mediation is here to stay, despite the occasional hiccup and the odd shot from 星空传媒 columnists 鈥� but it is important to choose mediators who know what they're doing
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Hey, it was just a question 鈥�
Your news feature (16 April 2004), entitled "The government is evolving the ideal eco-friendly home for the 21st century.
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Getting into Harvard
The business press doesn't write about construction's management strategies, universities don't study them 鈥� Are they trying to tell us something?
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Terms of engagement
Only a lawyer would put an 鈥渙ffer and acceptance鈥� in the same frame as adultery (Tony Bingham, 24 May, page 54). We in the industry have always known it鈥檚 about prostitution, and whether it鈥檚 legal is secondary 鈥�
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The system doesn't work
How about the Construction Industry Training Board assisting existing NVQ students a bit more?
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Misdirected directives
Your article "NHBC seeks judicial review of European Union insurance directive" (7 May, page 15) suggests that the National House 星空传媒 Council is not within the remit of the Financial Services Authority.
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CommentOpen mike: Eve of destruction
Architect Owen Luder reckons his infamous Tricorn Centre was unjustly demolished without a fair trial; now we must stop his Get Carter car park suffering the same fate
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Our hidden death toll
I feel that the Health and Safety Executive's latest statistics (16 April, page 14), which show that the number of site fatalities is decreasing slightly, needs to be put into context.
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It's a fair cap, Ann
Ann Minogue (8 April, page 49) chastises construction consultants for seeking to limit liability.
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A piece of the action
In America, lawyers can take a percentage of litigation proceeds. Here we regard that practice as reprehensible. But are English fee arrangements really so different?
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A sharp reminder
The publication this week of the National Audit Office's report into health and safety on building sites has done the industry a favour.
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A pricing problem
The defendant desired to sell his property, No.1 Horbury Mews and engaged the claimant (an estate agent) to assist him. On the advice of the claimant the defendant agreed, on the 29 June 2001, to market his property at 拢1.5m. An offer from a third party was received and accepted. ...
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CommentPicking the ponies
The people who hire adjudicators want intelligent, nimble beasts that cover the ground at a gallop while safely leaping legal hurdles. But how can they get them?