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Don't be nice, be fair
Partnership and trust are great, but that's not what contracts are are there to promote. They are there to make sure that people do what they say they will
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The unbearable cost of cover
Few tears were shed outside the Square Mile when crisis struck those apparently loathsome insurance companies after 11 September. A year on, though, insurers 鈥� in the great tradition of that industry 鈥� are passing the burden on to their customers. Now it is construction firms that face ruin as ...
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Prescott takes control
John Prescott's recent changes to regeneration policy have persuaded some that things might really get better for deprived communities. And they might, too 鈥�
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Closing time
Clear contractual arrangements can save arguments over when practical completion has occurred. But be careful 鈥� an overly stingent definition can backfire
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Unconscionable temerity
Law and practice on contractors' bonds is tilted in favour of the employers who call on them 鈥� which they do, often without good cause. Time for a change
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What's yours is mine
Guidance has been published on what happens when a firm makes a windfall profit by refinancing a PFI. You have been warned 鈥�
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Tales you lose
Don't get too smug reading about Jeffrey Archer's latest chiding 鈥� his case holds a warning to all of us about the danger of telling porkies and making up evidence
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Invisible pleasures
Medieval builders who died before their cathedrals were finished were lucky, because once a building's built, everything it could be is erased by what it is
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Now even friendlier
Use new formula Adjudication Rules鈩� from TeCSA, the kinder way to get rid of stubborn, dried in disputes (now comes with 100% enforcement guarantee!)
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A question of 鈥� timing
The 28-day deadline gives neither the parties nor the adjudicator proper time to ensure that quality decisions are reached. We need a more sensible period
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We need a New Model PFI
And about bloody time. After five years of obfuscation, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown faced down the unions in Blackpool over the PFI (see news).
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Do yourself a mischief
Construction professionals won't want to be without these new guides 鈥� even if they do have to get a hernia picking up the first, Emden's Construction Law
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Death by exposure
The state of the professional indemnity insurance market is so bad that firms unlucky enough to be hit by several claims a year may well be ruined
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The avenger
It was a bank holiday when the call came. Emergency gas leak, or so they thought. Here was a chance to pay back all those years of being messed around 鈥�
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Step on the accelerator
Sir John Egan did well to get construction to give itself an overhaul. Now his successor, Peter Rogers, needs to get the whole industry moving in the right direction
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Why we're too white
So Prince Charles thinks farmers are more victimised than blacks or gays.
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This really works 鈥�
The pre-action protocol aims to make litigation less nasty by giving litigants the chance to be civil to one another. To the surprise of its opponents, it does so