Opinion 鈥� Page 591
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Street fighting
Leicestershire County council (LCC) charged Transco Plc (Transco) the sum of 拢111,500 for six separate failures to complete under-street works to gas pipes on time. Transco was required by statute to give a notice when its works were complete, and it had failed to do so, although it gave notice ...
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Keep it simple, stupid
Anybody of the opinion that the law is a mammal of the genus equus asinus will be nodding their heads to this plea for common-sense adjudication rules 鈥�
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CommentSuspect everyone
Look, it's nothing personal but I just don't trust any of you 鈥� and you'd be mad to trust me or each other. If we could all understand this, there'd a lot less grief
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The couch brigade
Billions have been earmarked for new schools and hospitals, but who's going to build them? Either we rely on the Europeans 鈥� or we poach a few psychiatrists
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Costa bundle
Forward funding agreements for property in Spain are almost as popular as beach resorts. But you'd better know how Spanish law treats them or risk paying out
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Simon's saga, part two
His credentials in construction law were impeccable, his experience undeniable, his preparations unquestionable. Here's how his home improvement went down the pan
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CommentWonders & blunders
Ben Schott likes nothing better than a glass of dry sherry in Barry's Reform Club, but the London Eye gives him a funny turn
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Grumpy? Van Morrison?
You may go to great lengths wording a contract to protect your interests but if you then go and wrongfully terminate it, you'll pay 鈥� even if you are a troubador
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CommentCheck, please
In the JCT design-and-build form, an application for payment automatically becomes the sum due. So how can an employer avoid paying an inflated bill?
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Crack house crackdown
Didn't think the Queen's Speech was radical enough? Get a load of John Prescott's housing bill 鈥� it aims to tackle many of the more egregious abuses
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Viva Bambi!
Nick Henchie's claim that the Be Collaborative contract offers little in the way of practical assistance is given short shrift by one of the contract's writers
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Et tu, Simon?
You'd think a construction lawyer embarking on his own building work would draw on his experience to ensure that he didn't end up at a well-known creek. Well 鈥�
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Back from the dead
Just when it appeared to be gently ebbing away, construction's strategic forum has sprung back to life.
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You have to agree to disagree
This is a decision of the Court of Appeal. Wilson maintained both during the adjudication and before Judge MacKay (at a hearing to enforce that decision at first instance) that the contract that was the subject of the adjudication had been made not with him personally but with a company, ...
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It could be you
Imagine making a mistake that makes you liable for more money than a Lotto jackpot 鈥� and then finding you don't have PI cover. How likely is that?
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CommentGive 'em their due
Stonecarvers at the Royal Courts of Justice job in 1880 lost out when the employer withheld money. If only they'd had the Construction Act to protect them 鈥�
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Here starteth the lesson
An initiative to promote training on social housing projects should show the industry how to shed its insecurities and secure its future
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