All Comment articles – Page 700

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    Legal aid

    2004-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Our monthly legal advice slot tackles the employer that refused to respond to a loss and expense claim, the right of a client to use a contractor’s material after the contract has been rescinded and being reimbursed for the costs of making a claim

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    The truth about Ricky

    2004-01-30T00:00:00Z

    A reader writes - In the latest column by Ðǿմ«Ã½ readers, Peter Starbuck attacks Ricky Tomlinson's account of events leading to the trial of the Shrewsbury two – or was it seven?

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    A turn for the worse

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    A decade of revolutionary culture change seems to have culminated in the triumph of a class of supervisor bureaucrats. The real workers are back where they started

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    You’ll pay for this

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Why are construction leaders so reluctant to join the political fray over tuition fees?

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    Thanks, partner!

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    From my experience of working in Holland, the way in which Ballast Nedam has treated staff and subcontractors at Ballast UK comes as no surprise.

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    Nimbyism at work

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Another reason for housing sites not being developed (19 December, page 18) is restrictive covenants.

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    Name that toon

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    You refer, in the issue of 9 January (page 38), to the Gateshead Music Centre as a building due for completion in 2004, and claim that "the city of Newcastle will be gaining a Lord Foster landmark". However Gateshead is on one bank of the Tyne and Newcastle is ...

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    Let your voice be heard

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    I have resigned from the RICS after more than 50 years in the profession.

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    Hansom

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    This week, internet translation engines. On the one hand they are free and easily accessible, on the other they make you sound like a twerp. Hmm …

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    Under guarantee

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    I would like to offer some support and consolation to those subcontrators owed money by Ballast.

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    Scotland is freezing

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    The Human Rights Act limited Scottish claimants' rights to freeze defendants' assets before judgment. But a recent case may encourage this tool to be used more

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    Returning fire

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    This was an appeal from a decision of His Honour Judge Bowsher in the Technology & Construction Court of 3 March 2003. The judge had found the defendant architect (Paskin) liable in full for the damage arising from the spread of fire on 4 January 1998 that destroyed the food ...

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    What's with Duncan Wallace?

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Mr Duncan Wallace is the possessor of a mighty intellect and has provided a supplement (Hudson's Ðǿմ«Ã½ & Engineering Contracts 11th Edition First Supplement), which is comprehensive and scholarly.

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    Shadows and doubt

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    An adjudicator's decision can be thrown out over the merest hint of unfairness. Good news for the system's integrity, bad news for parties left in limbo

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    Healthy competition

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    I agree with Gus Alexander (19 December, page 23) that capacity and expertise are hot topics in healthcare architecture.

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    C'mon everybody

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Here are 10 steps to making the world a better place to do business in – and all can be adopted without converting to Buddhism, becoming celibate or giving up alcohol

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    I've put the bomb there

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    If a project manager supervises the installation of a fire risk, then warns its client that it has installed a fire risk, does the warning absolve it of blame after the inevitable fire?

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    Wonders & blunders

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Ross King worships a bijou temple in Rome, but the United Nations Secretariat makes him question his faith in Le Corbusier

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    We're all doomed

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    I want to express my outrage at the government's proposal to increase tuition fees to undergraduates.

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    Hissed again

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    In recognition of your timely post-Crimbo blitz on the dangers of the demon drink (16 January, pages 1, 3 and 24), wouldn't it be a consistent gesture to abandon the lashing out of £25 drinks vouchers to the winners of the excellent "In the detail" competition on this page? ...