Opinion 鈥� Page 642
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Teaching the Big Apple
The Manchester bomb in 1996 provided an opportunity for revolutionary urban renewal that was ultimately wasted. New York should learn from our mistakes
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The industry's black sheep
Recent cases suggest that consultants and their advisers are becoming too defensive. If this continues, there's a danger they'll lose the goodwill of the industry
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Question a silly answer
Tony Bingham An adjudicator makes a boob and the judge says he has answered the wrong question. But he hasn't: he's just answered the right question wrongly
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Meaningful relationships
Much like any relationship, partnering is more about mutual understanding and commitment than subscribing to a given definition
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Something rotten …
Not sure what the payment arrangements of the Construction Act are? You're not alone. They're confusing, that's what, and it's time for reform
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Cometh the hour …
If Iain Duncan Smith's election was remarkable, so are the global and national challenges he'll have to face. And he might just be the man for the job
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The cost of winning
Allowing the winning party in an adjudication to recover its costs from the loser is utterly inappropriate in adjudication. Worse, it could deter people from using it
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Don't take my word for it
When someone shakes your hand and says they intend to do business with you, you might reasonably believe you have an oral contract. Think again
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Three great legal myths
There is a danger that some urban myths about disputes will become embedded in people's minds unless arbitrators and adjudicators take steps to expose them
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The politics of the PFI
The PFI is not a new idea, but if it is to work, the government must be prepared to fight openly for its preferred policy
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Survival course
As if she hadn't come under enough fire, Zara Lamont braved four days with the army to find out what it could teach construction about getting on in a rough world
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Dinky is the new big
A new short form of subcontract is so small a plasterer will be able to keep it in his back pocket – and it's so simple, there's even a chance he'll understand it
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Hard day's night
Peter Cornell and Justin Williams give a glimpse of the hard slog of real-life mediation. Who's for coffee?
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Get what you want
Even in a win–win situation, one party wins more than the other. How do you ensure it's you?
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ADR stages dramatic comeback
In a function room at the Globe Theatre in London, people are drinking champagne and discussing the play. But this was a drama with a difference: these people are all construction professionals, and they have just been to what amounts to a seminar on mediation, organised by solicitor Campbell Hooper.Another ...
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Solutions R us
星空传媒 talks to Karen Gough, the new president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
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Making the best of PFI
The firms behind PFI hospitals and schools don't have to live with the consequences of bad design, so they aren't interested in it. Its time to change the rules …
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Give us the tools
Regeneration The government is finding it difficult to deliver its regeneration policy. It needs to clear away the bureaucratic obstacles.
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A drinking problem
Contractors tempted to forgo a contract and agree things over a pint, be warned. Adjudication won't protect you when you fall out over whose round it is