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Come back, Peter Walker
To meet the ever-increasing housing demand in the South-east, Prescott needs radical solutions. He could do worse than look to an old Tory for inspiration
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And then some
The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 may not have taken the world by storm, but it has hefty implications for adjudicators considering awards
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That old chestnut
Oh, did we promise to pay you if your employer went bankrupt? Well, we're terribly sorry, but this statute passed in 1677 says we don't have to
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Talking tongues
Conferences in Brussels could give an Englishman an inferiority complex, what with rampant trilingualism and gourmet fingerfood. Seek solace in the Berlaymont
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Adios Amey, hola Ferrovial
Imagine how happy Amey's shareholders felt when their 拢1bn investment (2002) was knocked down to 拢81m last Wednesday (see news).
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A can of terms
The defenders, Lilley Construction, carried out construction works for the pursuers, the trustees, at Merchants Quay Development at Peterhead Harbour. The contract was the ICE Conditions of Contract 6th Edition (January 1991) although it did not comply with requirements of sub-sections (1) to (4) of Section 108 of the 1996 ...
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Crack the code
Designers are increasingly liable for health and safety breaches, and are increasingly finding themselves in the dock as a result. Here's how to stay out of trouble
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CommentThe sound of fiddles
OK, the request may be a bit iffy, not 100% legit, but if I turn a blind eye so as to get the job, surely there's nothing wrong with that? Hey, what's that siren鈥�?
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For a few dollars less
Stuffed by an adjudicator? Dry-gulched and embittered? Looking for justice? Well, help is at hand because fast-track arbitration has just ridden back into town 鈥�
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Tear down the wall
It was just a throwaway line in Gordon Brown's excruciatingly prolix Budget speech, but its impact on contractors may be immense.
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Our blood, our money
The battle for contracts in Iraq has begun. As we were in the firing line, we ought to get a fair share of the work 鈥� before the French find a way back in
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More realpolitik, please
I had to read your article "Don't expect any hand-outs from US, Wilson tells firms" twice, as I thought I must have misread what Brian Wilson had said (4 April, page 13).
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More punishment, please
Melinda Parisotti alarms contractors and consultants unnecessarily in her rticle "Pleasure and punishment" (4 April, page 48).
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Oral promise? It's just talk
This was an appeal to the House of Lords in respect of the applicability of the doctrine of estoppel to guarantees, themselves governed by Section 4 of the Statute of Frauds 1677. Saint-Gobain had retained the First Defendant (鈥淚nglen鈥�) as the main contractor for the construction of ...
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Decision dodgers
Contractual disputes are getting bogged down in phoney challenges to the adjudicator's authority and spurious arguments about enforcement
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Premature adjudication
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances – and heaven help them if they get the timing wrong