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Permission to appeal
The CaseThis case concerns an application by the claimant, Majorboom, for permission to appeal under section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 on several questions of law arising from an arbitrator's award.Majorboom developed a property in Manchester by converting it into flats. Following completion of the flats a company, Stonebridge ...
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Whitelaw Turkington
鈥淒id you hear about that French guy who got his hand stuck down the toilet today?鈥� Ian Turkington announces before I鈥檝e even sat down. Wow, this is going to be an interesting night.
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CommentWe鈥檝e got the answers!
To such questions as 鈥楬ow do you survive the recession using only baked beans and window cleaning fluid?鈥�, 鈥楧oes a large prison sound less scary than a Titan prison?鈥� and 鈥淲here do all the leaves go?鈥�
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Asking the impossible
I read with some interest your article (17 October, page 24) on making owners improve property before letting it out or selling it.
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Monkeying around
The OFT has found some recruitment companies guilty of price fixing. Why is it that nothing surprises me any more?
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Energy challenges
The shortage of assessors caused by the dearth of green projects (24 October, page 50) could be the least of our worries in the looming skills crisis.
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CommentEarn your spurs
As a Spurs supporter and frequent attender at White Hart Lane, I strongly welcome the confirmation of the development plans for a new stadium. However, a critical issue will be accessibility to the new ground.
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Wrapping up waste
Colin Mitchell makes a number of points about the early development of site waste management plans (SWMPs) and the need for mechanisms for identifying, measuring and scoring approaches to SWMP regulations (September 12, page 93).
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CommentScaling new heights
Thanks to Dezir茅e Lindsay from Dallas who sent us this astonishing picture of a digger clawing its way up a building.
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It's been emotional
It can't be easy being the boss of a housebuilder at the moment. The incessant flow of bad news must take its toll.But while some are proving they have the hides of elephants, others appear to be wilting under the pressure.If rumours in the square mile are to be believed, ...
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Construction redundancies hit 10-year high and job vacancies drop by a third
The rapidly worsening headline figures for UK jobs are worrying enough for us all. It is a sobering thought to contemplate the pain of 100,000 fewer in fulltime employment and a leap of 140,000 in the number of unemployed over the three months to September.The latest figures for the third ...
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Why bigger contractors were slower to see the oncoming recession
Something that has been puzzling me for some while is why bigger contractors were so slow to accept their may be a recession coming.Up to about springtime in various conversations with fairly senior folk and in notes I'd read from main contractors I noted an air of confidence and talk ...
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House sales plunge further but surveyors see brighter future
The RICS has put an extremely upbeat spin on its latest monthly housing market survey despite the continued collapse in sales.The survey highlights the clear 20% majority of optimists over pessimists among the surveyors quizzed in October about future prospects for sales.This +20 balance in favour of sales increasing in ...
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CommentBest buys for the taxpayer
Now we鈥檙e all Keynesians again, public money is going to be spent on stimulating demand. But in the case of social housing, what should it actually buy? Nick Raynsford has some suggestions
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Fancy a 40% discount on a house? Then just wait, says the futures market
The futures market has downgraded it expectations for house prices which now points to a fall in cash terms of more than 40% from the peak in August last year to the bottom of the market in 2011.According to Tradition Future HPI an average house measured by the Halifax index ...
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IMF sees major decline in UK economic prospects
The prospects for the global economy are declining so fast that it has prompted the updating of an IMF forecast released just last month.The prospects for the UK now look decidedly gloomier to the IMF, which has revised its forecast of 0.1% fall in GDP to a fall of 1.3% ...
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Company collapses add to construction industry woes
The financial stress within construction firms caused by the credit crunch is made stark in the latest official insolvency figures. And the problems facing the sector are being increased as property firms collapse in massively swelling numbers.Between July and September this year there was an increase of almost two thirds ...
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CommentA no-brainer
So you want to build your project for less money, risk, stress, hassle and time? Well, there鈥檚 a simple way to do everyone a favour, says Peter Kilby
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Whitelaw Turkington
Chosen venue: The Prince of Wales, Kennington, South London Ambience: Cosy cricket lovers鈥� pub near Paddy Ashdown鈥檚 home Topics: Credit crunch denial, meeting Jonathan Ross, tartan vs plaid ...