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Dear Barbara,
Just a quick note, because I know you'll be getting advice in both ears at once courtesy of everyone from Tony Blair and Sir Steve Redgrave to the drivers of Hackney carriages and those lunatics who call radio phone-ins at 3am.
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Don't get caught in cahoots
Tough anti-cartel legislation has enabled the authorities to crack down on price-fixers. To avoid hefty fines, firms must know when co-operation ends and collusion begins
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An open question
The full implications of the Disability Discrimination Act will shortly compel developers to sort out any access issues they may have 鈥� or risk paying a hefty price
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CommentForeword: Tony Blair
A message of support from the prime minister for the 10th annual 星空传媒 Awards 2004
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Green light for government
The defendant approved a development of an accommodation centre for asylum seekers. The development was to be on land owned by the Home Office, but would be operated by its chosen contractor, who would be granted a lease of the land before the development commenced. There had been local opposition ...
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CommentInnocence and experience
If an adjudicator sees something they shouldn't, is there any way that they can escape a charge of bias? Here's how one adjudicator tackled the problem
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Food for thought
We invite you to chew over the main issues arising from the proposed review of the Construction Act, while he helps himself to a large slice of humble pie 鈥�
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Living on one's wits
Small practices are the tiny, furry mammals skipping under the scaly feet of industry dinosaurs, with an agility and an imagination that they can't begin to grasp
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Pressure testing the HBF
The Sustainable 星空传媒s Task Group. It doesn't sound like a revolutionary cabal.
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We can buy Poland!
Poland's accession to the European Union in May will fire a starting pistol for foreign investors who want to get their hands on the country's land
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Novation without tears
In the wake of Blyth & Blyth, novation agreements have needed clarification. But will the publication of not one but two standard forms be a help or a hindrance?
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CommentBe reasonable, Ann
A reader writes Stavry Onissiphorou of ACE picks a good-natured 鈥� and closely argued 鈥� fight with Ann Minogue over whether it鈥檚 fair for consultants to limit their liabilities
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Damage limitation
The claimant, a development company, issued proceedings for negligence against the defendant, their retained architectural consultants, as a result of water penetration into the rear basement structure of a number of houses in a terrace which the claimant was refurbishing for investment purposes. The defendant issued Part 20 proceedings against ...
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CommentLeave the act alone
The plan, announced in the Budget, to set up the CIPER forum is deeply troubling. It will be a kind of secret society, and it will want to change the Construction Act
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Reality check
The Court of Appeal has just added two heaped spoonfuls of common sense to the rules on what adjudicators can do without breaching natural justice
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The links effect
Specification duties are not the sole preserve of the architect. Manufacturers, contractors and installers all contribute to the choices that can make or break a building. In this flooring and roofing bumper issue, we look at the key links in the supply chain in an aeronautical extension to RAF Hendon ...
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CommentOpen mike: Enemies of the people
In the first of a series of guest columns, Jeff Howell, The Sunday Telegraph's construction writer, explains what shocks the public most about their builders
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