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Step on the gas
Gordon Brown鈥檚 Budget pledges to deal with the logjams in the planning system, release sites for housebuilding, review the progress of PPG3 and more, are further proof of the prominence of housing on the government鈥檚 agenda.
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Roads to freedom
Insurers have the construction industry by the short and curlies, but we can loosen their grip by doing more to manage our risks so we don't have to rely on them
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Court is your last resort
The relaunch of the Court of Appeal mediation scheme is a clear sign that the UK's senior judiciary wants litigation to be used only when there is no other way
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Let's build in Gordon's garden!
Having just read Gordon Isgrove's argument in your Homes supplement arguing for more building on greenfield sites, I feel the need to ask if Gordon was scared by a tree when young.
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Let the seller beware
Another housing project more or less finished, so it's pints all round while we wait for the money. Sadly, new mortgage rules mean it may be a long wait 鈥�
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CommentEveryman's adjudication
A new guide spells out in layman's terms just what adjudication is and holds your hand through the whole process. It's just what builders 鈥� and lawyers 鈥� need
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12 years late is not unreasonable
This was an appeal from a decision of Judge Silber who refused the claimant's application for judicial review with decision of Lewisham London Borough council to enforce a demolition notice. The demolition notice had been served under Section 36 of the Buildling Act 1984 and require the claimant to remove ...
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A can of terms
The defenders, Lilley Construction, carried out construction works for the pursuers, the trustees, at Merchants Quay Development at Peterhead Harbour. The contract was the ICE Conditions of Contract 6th Edition (January 1991) although it did not comply with requirements of sub-sections (1) to (4) of Section 108 of the 1996 ...
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Talking tongues
Conferences in Brussels could give an Englishman an inferiority complex, what with rampant trilingualism and gourmet fingerfood. Seek solace in the Berlaymont
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And then some
The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 may not have taken the world by storm, but it has hefty implications for adjudicators considering awards
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That old chestnut
Oh, did we promise to pay you if your employer went bankrupt? Well, we're terribly sorry, but this statute passed in 1677 says we don't have to
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If the cap fits 鈥�
You've got insurance cover for up to 拢5m. Great. Trouble is, you're being sued for 拢50m. Not so great. So, ever thought of capping your liability?
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Come back, Peter Walker
To meet the ever-increasing housing demand in the South-east, Prescott needs radical solutions. He could do worse than look to an old Tory for inspiration
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CommentBringing up baby
Next week, adjudication turns five 鈥� and now that the industry has taken the little 'un to its heart it's time to pack him off to school for a little education
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Adios Amey, hola Ferrovial
Imagine how happy Amey's shareholders felt when their 拢1bn investment (2002) was knocked down to 拢81m last Wednesday (see news).
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More realpolitik, please
I had to read your article "Don't expect any hand-outs from US, Wilson tells firms" twice, as I thought I must have misread what Brian Wilson had said (4 April, page 13).
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More punishment, please
Melinda Parisotti alarms contractors and consultants unnecessarily in her rticle "Pleasure and punishment" (4 April, page 48).
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Oral promise? It's just talk
This was an appeal to the House of Lords in respect of the applicability of the doctrine of estoppel to guarantees, themselves governed by Section 4 of the Statute of Frauds 1677. Saint-Gobain had retained the First Defendant (鈥淚nglen鈥�) as the main contractor for the construction of ...