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CommentRubber chicken: Foster & Fox present 鈥�
Our intrepid correspondent makes the arduous ascent of the gherkin and meets the great and the good 鈥� including a certain architect and Swiss Re vice president
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Beware their clause
An innocent-seeming sentence in a contract can have potentially fatal repercussions on your liabilities 鈥� as the following example demonstrates
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Group therapy for adjudicators
Two Court of Appeal decisions have left adjudication suffering from a crisis of identity. At least it has a support network to see it through these difficult times
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CommentSite-time reading
Keith Pickavance reviews Hamish Lal's guide to winning your delay and disruption case
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Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ow
I am writing to inform you of a spelling mistake in your edition dated 2 April 2004.
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Soundtracks of our lives
I was interested to read your Hansom story regarding the careers section of Gleeds' new website (2 April, page 25).
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CommentYou be the judge
Three weeks ago we posed a legal brainteaser and asked you to pass judgment. Here are three of the best answers we received and the question-setter's opinion 鈥� plus another problem to test your legal instincts
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Vital surface issues
This was an appeal by the claimant from the first instance decision dismissing a claim for damages arising from an accident. A child, K, was playing in a communal garden controlled by Portsmouth City Council. She tripped on stone in a gravel path leading to the garden and sustained an ...
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The greatest story never told 鈥�
Mark Whitby's idea for a storyline in The Archers (2 April, page 10) is not the first from a design professional.
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Give him an inch
If it is my chance to design a townhouse for the 21st century (2 April, page 46), why am I being briefed in square feet which we were supposed to have abandoned 30 years ago.
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A fair slice of PI
The call from the Association of Consulting Engineers to change the laws relating to joint and several liability is a bold move (2 April, page 50) 鈥� even though such a bid to reduce the costs of professional indemnity insurance would not alleviate high premiums in the short term.
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RICS roadshow fails to convince
Readers of 星空传媒 who intend to hear Nick Brooke at one of his whistlestop meetings should be warned that those meetings are unlikely to address the questions that they will expect to be answered.
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The CITB is getting there
Tony Bingham is right to say that the Construction Industry Training Board ought to have such a damn good package on offer that joinery manufacturers would be happy to pay the compulsory levy (2 April, page 50).
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Wonders & blunders
Trisha Gupta rejoices in the art nouveau interior of an unimposing Essex church, but fails to see why anybody worships the mall
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CommentBlood and treasure
Firms who took part in the foot-and-mouth massacre were treated like pirates when they presented their bill. This is how they eventually got their gold
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The big picture
If you鈥檒l indulge us for a moment, we鈥檒l tell you a little bit about the legal system as seen by a legal journalist 鈥� and it鈥檚 a huge and complex thing
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Home exorcism for beginners
Simon Tolson says there are better options for both contractor and client than partial possession. And he's been longing to move back into any part of his home for 10 months 鈥�