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CommentPasta and paranoia
Rubber chicken takes in a trade fair in Bologna and discovers that the bella paese's historic love of all things beautiful extends to stoats' skulls, fossilised trees and, er, padlocks
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There's a limit to capping
The claimant, Westminster 星空传媒, tendered for building works in respect of a property owned by Mr Beckingham. The specification stated that the contract would be in the form of a JCT IFC 1998 incorporating amendments. A letter of intent dated 27 June 2002 instructed the claimant to proceed with the ...
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Why the Tories will win
The government's refusal to treat the construction industry as the special case it is has made it very difficult for Labour to triumph in next year's election
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Measure for measure
Insurers are providing shrinking cover on terrorism and asbestos risks. Now consultants have new standard contract terms that shrink their liabilities to match
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Pinned and needled
A client's attempts to wriggle out of adjudication on three tricky points of law were quashed by one very clever adjudicator 鈥� and he wasn't even a lawyer
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More poor SAPS
You may remember the case of the boilers that weren't of satisfactory quality despite being in perfect working order. Well, the argument's heating up鈥�
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Sorry, I'm a bit tied up
If the growth forecast in Gordon Brown's Budget is to prove more than a confidence trick, the chancellor can start by slashing the red tape strangling construction
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Labour takes the gloves off
Has the penny finally dropped at Whitehall? It's a truism of British politics that every party runs for election on the promise of freeing business from the dead hand of state regulation.
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CommentGuilty bystanders
Under the Proceeds of Crime Act introduced last year, if you suspect dodgy practices on site but keep shtoom, the authorities will see you as the criminal
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CommentWonders & blunders
We finds serenity in the heart of the city but then loses her cool over a West Midlands shed-cum-bus terminal
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Castleford revisited
I am writing to reassure both your readers and Sarah Wigglesworth (28 February, page 28) that the organisers of The Castleford Project are more than aware of the complexities and timetables of regeneration projects.
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Third time lucky?
As John Redmond pointed out (5 March, page 52), the New Engineering Contract (second edition) has not really been tested by the courts.
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Stop the planning freeze
The current drive for "affordable housing" is undoubtedly a gallant attempt to allow lower income households to invest in their own property.
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Makeover for Marks
In view of Marks & Spencer's attempt to rebrand itself with its new Gateshead store (5 March, page 18), and if their catalogue is anything to go by, perhaps they would like to consider changing the store's name to suit. May I suggest "Markea"?
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When claims multiply
The appellant, William Roe, had crashed his car into a cable support pole on a tramway in Sheffield and sustained serious injuries. His car had slid in wet weather along the tram rails, which protruded a little from the road surface, and had then "snatched" on the adjacent concrete. ...
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Three cheers for kate
Kate Barker's review is, as you would expect, a weighty report, but housebuilders will find all 158 tightly-written pages of it pretty happy reading.