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Cut us some slack
Adjudication is increasingly dealing with matters that are difficult to sort out within 28 days. It would be fairer to give adjudicators the right to extend the time limit.
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The brand plays on
After years of talk, the RIBA is sprucing up its image and its spectacular headquarters. At last it looks like an organisation that knows a bit about design
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Corrupt practices
As the use of electronic document storage and transfer increases, the risk of corruption grows, and professionals are advised to have an effective back-up system.
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Creative contracts
For expert services to fall within the Construction Act, they must be to do with construction operations, and if they are not, then you should pretend that they are
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Nothing personal
Although an adjudicator must act in his personal capacity when deciding a case, he is under no obligation to do this when it comes to recovering his fees
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Cleverness isn't enough
Contracts may have become more sophisticated in the way they handle dispute resolution, but there's a basic problem they can't address. Only you can
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Fair-weather friends
Too many people's commitment to partnering is a politically correct veneer that cracks to reveal the old adversarial thinking as soon as the going gets tough
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Speak English!
Acronyms and abbreviations are part of life in the industry, but there are signs that communication is beginning to crumble under the sheer weight of jargon
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Shock of the new
Clients outside construction are starting to experiment with adjudication – once they have got over their initial scepticism
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Read the small print
When it comes to insurance policies, beware of the exclusions, limitations, ifs and buts. As the lawyers well know, interpretation is nine points of the law
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The dispute machine
So you think the Construction Act is reducing the number of disputes in the industry? Wrong. It has made going to court more popular than ever before
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Clobbered from the start
Design-and-build contractors be warned. There is a clause that can make you responsible for mistakes that happened before you even signed the contract
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The delivery boys
If Tony Blair is to fulfil his "instruction to deliver" he must tackle officialdom's failure to implement policy effectively – a source of much misery
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Was Heseltine right?
Regeneration聽Despite its efforts, the government is still failing to tackle urban deprivation. We look at why it's so hard to make a difference
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It's all in the timing
The Brompton hospital case turned on the definition of concurrent delays. But it asked more questions about extensions of time than it answered
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It's a long story …
This is the tale of a couple who bought an old house overlooking Beachy Head – and then found that the surveyor had sold them a pup …
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Triumph at court
Where a parent company pays for loss incurred by a subsidiary, the subsidiary can still be compensated – even though the parent was not a party to the contract
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Hold on to the Rottweiler
Going into a dispute with all guns blazing may make you feel better, but it's a lousy way of keeping business and may well cost you an arm and a leg
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What a shower!
The Tories' performance in the election was embarrassing, hopeless, abysmal – which isn't surprising when you look at the calibre of those in charge