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This is a hold-up
Making a claim for losses caused by disruption can be tricky if you can't prove how much the disruption cost you. So how do you go about doing that?
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Eleven days lost
Here's a strange case where a fight over the meaning of a small part of the Construction Act decided which party took a big hit. This is what happened
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So, Mr Bond...
Escaping from an on-demand performance bond can be extremely tricky 鈥� and a recent case gives little comfort to those hoping the courts will rescue them
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Sail or return
You buy a yacht for a cool quarter of a million, sail around in it for six months, decide you don't like it and ask for your money back. Fair dos 鈥� or taking the mick?
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You name it, there's a regulation
I find myself in the unusual and confusing state of being in agreement with an architect and a solicitor at the same time: Barry Munday and John Redmond (11 April, pages 39 and 53).
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What you think of the RICS fee increase
Bye-bye little guy I read with interest that the RICS' forum group had written to its president, Peter Fall, to oppose the ridiculous increase in fees. Fall says in his 鈥� very poor 鈥� attempt to win support for the rise that the RICS' membership has increased 30% over the ...
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Desperate for a decision
The first respondent, HBG, entered into a contract for the building of a leisure complex at Kingask, St Andrews with St Andrews Bay Development Limited. The conditions of the contract were the Standard Scottish 星空传媒 Contract with Contractor's Design (May 1999 Edition) with amendments. On 9 ...
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Dawn of the 眉bermanager
Regarding your "Go-faster bunnies" article on 25 April (pages 50-52), it was heartening to hear people in the industry talking about the benefits that education brings.
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Drawing to a close
Architectural drawings were once signature pieces that told us a lot about those who did them. Now the RIBA has a great scheme to save them from extinction
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Cheap and far from cheerful
I am moved to comment on 星空传媒's news story about Romanian workers to be given work permits for the UK (21 March, page 11) and the article on foreign staff working on a London site (17 April, page 36).
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CABE on the threshold
One of the more remarkable British success stories since the millennium has been the rise of CABE, whose leading lights feature on this week's cover.
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CommentBlow your rights
Why try to compare litigation with mediation when they do different things? We have mediation because we can't afford to find out what the truth is
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鈥� and carrots for all
Standard contracts have their limitations for public鈥損rivate deals. To stay sane until signing day, try to draw up a timetable that incentivises all parties
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Not you again
One adjudicator tackling several related disputes seems a good way to cut out duplicated effort. But the parties must agree to it 鈥� or the adjudicator will get it from all sides
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A stinging rebuke
I am sorry about the delay in sending in this letter but I have only just been catching up on my reading of 星空传媒.
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Our other prime minister
Blair may be disenchanted with Brown, but he is stuck with him. As the Budget showed, the chancellor has complete control over the domestic agenda
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Strangled by many hands
As chancellor Gordon Brown made clear in this month's Budget, the undersupply of new housing in Britain needs to be addressed if we are to prevent future shortages.