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A question of justification
Are Britain's bosses overpaid? This question has been dominating the City pages over the past few months, particularly after the 拢22m severance deal struck by Jean-Pierre Garnier, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline.
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Don't be a Boynton
When a dream home extension is delayed and defective, the client may win our sympathy. But winning damages and avoiding costs requires hard evidence
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Being sat on by a hippo
Memo to Nigel Griffiths: More and more small, solvent firms are being squashed by large, insolvent ones. At present they have almost no protection. Time to step in?
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After the fall
In the absence of a conventional government in Iraq, what is the legal status of contracts signed with state bodies? And how about those signed with Saddam's regime?
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For richer, for poorer
Living with your project partner is about as blissfully straightforward as living with the other kind. But, as you mother would say, you've got to work at making it work
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Massive retaliation
Recent changes to the Enterprise Act mean that anyone involved in forming a cartel will face crippling fines, and individual managers could get five years in prison
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The very idea!
You may think consultants own the intellectual property rights in their work 鈥� but certain contracts transfer them to the client. Don't sign away your ingenuity
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Home truths in Lijnbaan
The RIBA has just taken itself off to Rotterdam to work out what regeneration's all about. And if you think it's a certain city's loft apartments, you'd be much mistaken
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CommentWonders & blunders
Michael Ankers reflects on two faces of construction 鈥� one beaming from ear to ear, the other snarling like a sheep-killing dog
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CommentAim for the head
David Blunkett's corporate manslaughter bill may satisfy public demand to see bad managers punished, but it looks like it is going to apply to a great many people
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The case against Kaufman
Gerald Kaufman has fought a campaign against London's Olympic bid that is as lengthy is it has been lonely. Here's why he should now give up the struggle
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Adjudication on the home front
The employers were Mr Legg and Ms Carver, the owners of a house at 188a Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale, London. An architect prepared drawings and a specification for the proposed refurbishment works to the property. The employers were residential occupiers for the purposes of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration ...
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When a spade's not a spade
If a subcontractor delays your project, you may argue that they were 'nominated' rather than 'domestic'. Forget labels 鈥� it's the way they were appointed that counts
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The price of success
I couldn't agree more with the column by John Smith (27 June, page 34).
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Do unto others 鈥�
If an adjudication doesn't go the claimant's way, he may decide to cry foul play. But he'd better make sure his own tactics are fair before he does
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No Wow now
St Paul's is a constant reminder that we no longer produce the kind of jaw-dropping buildings that characterise 17th-century London and modern Los Angeles
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Myopic surveyors
I read with some amusement GJ Davey's response to the RICS fees debate (20 June, page 37) stating that the proposal was hidden within the AGM literature.
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CommentMirror, mirror on the wall
You may think you're the fairest adjudicator of them all, but if an informed outsider thinks different, you could find yourself being cut down to size