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Life should mean life
What's the point in paying for long-life products if you can't sue when they fail after the limitation period? Not much 鈥� but fortunately, a new law is on the way
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Cities of joy and shame
Why is Salisbury closer to Santa Fe than Manchester is to Leeds? Well, you'll have to go to Birmingham in the autumn to answer that question 鈥�
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Can't get no satisfaction
'Merchantable quality' in contracts is still talked about, but it is 'satisfactory quality' that we should be focusing on
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Knockout argument
The received wisdom nowadays is that adjudication is better than going to court. But sometimes the court can offer a quick victory at a bargain price
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Putting an end to it all
An employer who wishes to terminate a deal had better not take the contract too literally, as sometimes its most important rule is an unwritten one
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Same time, same place
Many people have run away with the idea that delay caused by a client forgives delay caused by a contractor. It doesn't
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Just say no
You've got your dispute, you've got your adjudicator 鈥� and you've got your adjudicator's unreasonable terms of appointment. What should you do next?
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Hush money
Most of us will do anything for a quiet life. And if the peaceful enjoyment of our homes is shattered by noisy neighbours or aeroplanes, we're increasingly likely to sue
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Desecration row
Iconoclasts have come a long way from Byzantium to Brockhampton, but they're still smashing up 拢7m of church property a year. Here's a solution 鈥�
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Base motives
Starting from this month, anyone who repays a debt late is liable to an additional 12% per annum interest. So, how will late the late payers try to wriggle out?
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You had to be there
It is easy to mock RIBA president Paul Hyett for rolling up in Johannesburg this week (pages 18-19). The third earth summit has "fiasco" written all over it: 60,000 dignitaries are trying to save the planet in two weeks, thereby expending more greenhouse gases than Africa produces in a year. ...
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Techno-toys r us
The evolution of home technology holds the promise that Le Corbusier's dictum, "the home is a machine for living in", will be less of a design philosophy and more of a literal reality.
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We shall not be moved
A second look at the Guidance for Adjudicators focuses on how not to be intimidated 鈥� either by the parties or by the huge piles of paper they throw at you
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The HSE's masterstroke
When Kier and Wates were hauled up before the beak last month, it was easy to conclude that the basis of the Health and Safety Executive's safety drive was browbeating illustrious contractors. But the shock tactic of raiding London sites gave a misleading impression. The HSE doesn't just want to ...
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Time to let go
Retentions are part of the old-school, adversarial industry culture. They're anachronistic, poor value and bound up with all sorts of shady practices. Let's get rid of them
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Once more unto the breach
Can an employer, disgruntled because of defective work, cry breach of contract and pursue damages even if the contractor has put the defect right?
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What's the big idea?
Construction's traditional attitude to R&D is that a brick is a brick is a brick 鈥� leaving the industry wide open to foreign competition. It's time to put our thinking caps on