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Whitehall's special needs
This should be interesting. Whitehall is about to undertake a crash course in A level public procurement. A notoriously dim pupil, it has been flunking basic tests for years. But political expediency demands that it achieve top marks in schools, hospitals and transport by the next election. Head teacher Gordon ...
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Mechanised tree-houses
One reason for our British spinelessness is that we don't like to make a fuss. Which wasn't always the case. In fact, our cars used to look a perfect fright 鈥�
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Redmond's recipe for fudge
For an adjudicator, reaching a decision on a complex case in 28 days may be tricky 鈥� but doing a botch-job, as John Redmond suggested, doesn't do anyone any justice
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Shame, Brunel, shame
You'll all know that a certain Victorian engineer just missed out on "greatest Briton". But did you know he was one of the worst employers Britain has ever had?
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Give them their due
The Construction Act's payment provisions are there to promote certainty of payment: nothing should stop the payee from knowing where it stands on pay day
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Prescott under fire
John Prescott has more to worry about right now than his deteriorating relationship with housebuilders (pages 24-25). Planning chaos is a political sideshow alongside the main drama of the firefighters' dispute and the threat 鈥� amid a London teachers' strike 鈥� of a new winter of discontent. But, although no ...
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Reflex reaction
Critics of the public鈥損rivate partnership dwell on fledgling problems, but these are nothing that can't be solved. Better that than no new schools or hospitals 鈥�
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An unprecedented future
Much is said about our industry learning from its experiences, yet here we are throwing away a wealth of knowledge on points of law and principle
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Ten years later 鈥�
Should you expect compensation if someone does you damage they should have foreseen? Of course. But what if it goes on for an unforeseeable length of time?
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Ways of making you talk
It was always thought that a clause in a contract that says parties will mediate before they litigate wasn't that enforceable. After the following case, we know different
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Cleaning up the pensions mess
A year after 星空传媒 warned of construction's pensions time bomb, employers and staff alike are getting the jitters about the cost of retirement. Our annual Hays Montrose/星空传媒 careers survey reveals that more than half of readers are worried about pensions, and 鈥� as a result 鈥� expect to work beyond ...
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We're not the only ones
Like construction, the pensions industry has failed to focus on what its customers need. It should take a leaf out of our book and indulge in some free-thinking
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The war of all against all
The House of Lords has just given us key tests to decide who wins when members of a project team try to pin liability on each other
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Goodbye to all that
After 20 years teaching craft skills, this lecturer has had enough. Here he explains how a debased system and useless students turned a fine job into his definition of hell
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In pursuit of the civil
The pre-action protocol is supposedly turning solicitors into nice people. But in the absence of evidence that it's working, are there other ways of meeting its aims?
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A night on the tiles
Practising flamenco late at night in the room above mine may be your idea of fun. But if it disturbs my sleep and I take you to court, it may hurt you in the castanets