All articles by Charlene Linneman – Page 3

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    Define your terms

    2006-03-24T00:00:00Z

    Rugby Group Ltd manufactured and supplied cement for use by the construction industry. Since 1997 ProForce had supplied temporary workers to Rugby for work at a site located in the Rugby area.In July 2001 ProForce and Rugby entered into a written service cleaning agreement for a fixed term. During that ...

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    Under review

    2006-02-24T00:00:00Z

    This was an application for judicial review of an adjudication decision under the adjudication legislation in Queensland. JJ McDonald & Sons Engineering Pty Ltd (JJ) had entered into a subcontract with CEPM Pty Ltd (CEPM) that required CEPM to supply and install temporary framework, fix and tie the reinforcing steel ...

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    A matter of interest

    2006-01-31T11:09:00Z

    Egger (Barony) & Co Ltd ("Egger") and Skanska Construction UK Ltd ("Skanska") entered into a contract in April 1997. Skanska was to procure and achieve the design and construction of a factory for a guaranteed maximum price of £12m. Skanska agreed to perform the design, development, management, construction, procurement, and ...

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    High hopes

    2005-11-18T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Exchange is a Grade 1 listed building. The claimants (the Corporation of London and the Mercers Company) are the trustees of the Gresham Trust and the registered proprietors of the Royal Exchange. Opposite the Royal Exchange was the head office of Lloyds Bank. On 24 October 1928 the ...

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    A tax dodge?

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    This was an appeal in relation to the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1998 (ICTA) against the Commissioners’ decision to issue a statutory Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) certificate to Transform Shop Office and Bar Fitters Ltd after the Inspector of Taxes refused to issue the CIS. The CIS provides ...

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    The cost of copyright infringement

    2005-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) exists to enforce and protect the exclusive right to play in public, and to authorise the playing in public of, copyrighted sound recordings that have been issued to the public. Mr Reader was part of a partnership that owned a club in Brighton. In 1999, ...