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CommentWonders & blunders
David Hardy finds his thrill in the exciting form of Foster and Partners' erotic gherkin, but gets no kick from London's jam doughnut
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Under covered
Terrorism and asbestos claims are not covered by professional indemnity policies. So how do you protect your firm against these risks? It's all in the contract...
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Hang loose, man
By all means, let's chill out, exchange ideas on managing disputes and stuff 鈥� only, like, you know, we don't need all these rules telling us what to do, yeah?
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A tax on costs
The Edinburgh Royal Joint Venture was set up to design and build a new royal infirmary and medical school. Zenith Contract Interiors was a subcontractor to the defenders for plasterboard partitioning. A provisional liquidator was appointed to Zenith and the subcontract works were novated from Zenith to Deko Scotland. Pursuant ...
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The housing block
Forget about the Treasury's five tests for joining the euro 鈥� the fact is we can't do any such thing until we solve the undersupply of housing. This is why...
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See you in court, partner
Partnering agreements are often long on aspiration and short on detail. Little wonder so many of them end up in costly legal wrangles
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A blow to one's pride
The British Council for Offices' Barcelona do was an opportunity for the industry to exchange views, get robbed and become horribly, horribly embarrassed
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The enemy within
There was quite an outcry last year when 星空传媒 revealed Jarvis' claim that sabotage may have been to blame for the Potters Bar rail tragedy
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Protect your BITs
Companies considering accepting a job in a half-dodgy foreign country should have a bilateral investment treaty. What's one of those? Ah, what indeed...
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The corrections
At last we're to get warranties and a novation agreement that really work 鈥� and protect parties from the consequences of some recent court decisions
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Easy steps to hair loss
Got a bit too much of a mop up top? Want to look mature and distinguished? Now you too can look like me 鈥� just become a responding party in an adjudication!
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Options run out
Deciding the colour of the tiles on the bathroom walls used to be the biggest choice a homebuyer had to make. Now housebuilders are producing optional extras catalogues, offering everything anyone could want. In the USA buyers spend about 10% of a new home’s sales price on extras, and although ...
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The great public–private divide
As a practicing architect and a judge for different housing design awards, I am acutely aware of the issues at the sharp end of the housebuilding industry.
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A friendly suit
The claimant, Roy Hammond, sought damages of 拢973,264 arising out of the repudiation of a contract to provide central heating and plumbing services to the 130 cottages and other properties on the Glynde Estate in East Sussex, of which the first three defendants were trustees and the fourth defendant was ...
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Death by Venice
The A-list of tourist destinations thrive on their history, uniqueness, beauty and immutability. Which is precisely what makes them so deadly
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Nil desperandum
As you know, it's a fat lot of use being right if you can't prove that you are. But are you completely sunk if you didn't keep 'contemporary records'?
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Enough to make you sick?
The story of the 拢87m Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle should be triggering sirens and blue flashing lights at the Department of Health, Number 10 and the Treasury