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Why should banks be secure?
What can you do when the firm that's just taken 拢10k of goods from you goes belly-up? The answer is: not much – after the bank's receiver has made sure the bank gets its cash back. That may be about to change.
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Conservative measures
Good riddance to John Major’s Tory government; a warm welcome to New Labour’s new conservatism.
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All aboard
First person It’s better to travel hopefully than to arrive, so here’s hoping the revamps of Manchester Piccadilly and Westminster Tube go well.
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Design faults
First person So, architects are still nursing their bruised egos, are they? Perhaps they should take a look around and buck up their ideas.
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A matter of faith
A duty of good faith is increasingly being expressed or implied in consultants' contracts and could affect all aspects of their appointment but what exactly does it entail?
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Creative tension
What will Prescott need to match Egan's vorsprung durch Technik with Rogers' huggy togetherness? A good imagination, perhaps.
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Clash points
The Woolf reforms have introduced a revolutionary change in legal culture. Has the subcontracting industry woken up to this, and is it ready to change its ways to cope with the new rules?
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Clash points
Specialist contractors are in the same state of uncertainty as everyone else when it comes to post-Woolf litigation but given the abysmal record of the courts pre-Woolf, it couldn't get much worse.
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Egan 脿 la carte
The Egan message may be all very well for the big boys of construction, but does it have any relevance to smaller firms?
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Law in the electronic age
Electronic data management is the future for construction consultants. It's just terrific. The problem is that the legal and commercial framework doesn't support it yet.
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Pet adjudicators
Tempting though it is to ensure that you get a tame adjudicator by writing their name into the contract document, you might be arming your opponent with a weapon of last resort.
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Summing up聽number 35 – payments into court
In Berwin Leighton's series on legal basics, Joanne Rees explains payments into court
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Make it legal
First person homeowners want a national approach to the cowboy problem that has the force of law. A new bill would give it to them.
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Give it another go
Why abandon buildings when they go out of fashion? With a little imagination, we could recycle the space.
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Falling standards
How can we prevent fatal failures in the enforcement of building standards, as seen in Turkey and Ashford?
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One night in Baghdad
From exotic ethnicity in Isfahan to showy vulgarity in Nevada; hotels should offer more than nylon sheets and shower caps.
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Everything has changed
First person Those who continually complain that the industry’s payment provisions haven’t improved, stop moaning and look again.
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Past improvements
The refurbishment of old buildings makes more sense than ever before – but only if it’s for the right reasons.
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Care for the community
The government needs to help us shape our own communities before British cities become totally segregated by wealth.
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Al fresco fiasco
If decent provision were made for eating and drinking outside, Britain’s urban landscape would be a lot more appealing.