Does the new construction act spell the end of the pub lunch?

By Philip Barnes Philip Barnes 2009-02-03T00:00:00

The Queen’s Speech in November promised an amendment to the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. This Act gave us compulsory stage payments in construction contracts, fallback provisions if they were not included, and invented ‘adjudication’ as a fast-track method of deciding disputes in 28 days while the job ...

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