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We're not the only ones
Like construction, the pensions industry has failed to focus on what its customers need. It should take a leaf out of our book and indulge in some free-thinking
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Ways of making you talk
It was always thought that a clause in a contract that says parties will mediate before they litigate wasn't that enforceable. After the following case, we know different
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Ten years later 鈥�
Should you expect compensation if someone does you damage they should have foreseen? Of course. But what if it goes on for an unforeseeable length of time?
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Cleaning up the pensions mess
A year after 星空传媒 warned of construction's pensions time bomb, employers and staff alike are getting the jitters about the cost of retirement. Our annual Hays Montrose/星空传媒 careers survey reveals that more than half of readers are worried about pensions, and 鈥� as a result 鈥� expect to work beyond ...
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Goodbye to all that
After 20 years teaching craft skills, this lecturer has had enough. Here he explains how a debased system and useless students turned a fine job into his definition of hell
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The war of all against all
The House of Lords has just given us key tests to decide who wins when members of a project team try to pin liability on each other
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What's wrong with simple?
The Contracts (Right of Third Parties) Act makes collateral warranties and their bureaucratic complications redundant. Yet some lawyers seem reluctant to see them go
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A night on the tiles
Practising flamenco late at night in the room above mine may be your idea of fun. But if it disturbs my sleep and I take you to court, it may hurt you in the castanets
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Minority report
Weighty reports are all very well, but they're not the best way to get firms to reach out to women and ethnic minorities. We need positive recruitment practices
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The great unknown
Not knowing the law used to be no excuse for anything. But now the courts are telling us that it can be a helpful point to raise in a contractual dispute
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Endgame on the underground
Is it nearly the end of the line for the part-privatisation of London's Tube? A year and a half after they were first chosen as the preferred bidders, the Metronet and Tube Lines consortiums were due to finalise their deals this month. But as passengers so often find, delays are ...
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In pursuit of the civil
The pre-action protocol is supposedly turning solicitors into nice people. But in the absence of evidence that it's working, are there other ways of meeting its aims?
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Up the resolution
The Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution's new procedure presents a flexible way of solving disputes that leaves the parties in control for as long as possible
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Mediation mapped
The legal context in which mediation takes place is becoming more complex and more coercive. Here's a guide to where we are now, and an idea of where we're going
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The truth hurts
At last week's urban summit, John Prescott went in for a spot of housebuilder bashing. In fact, the real villain of the housing fiasco can be found closer to home
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Eyes wide shut
If we're going to seize our inauspicious economy by the horns, companies need to stop kidding themselves that things are better than they really are
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Do the best you can
What does an adjudicator do when they do not have time to reach a view on the evidence? One judge suggested they resign, but there is a better option 鈥�