All Legal articles – Page 145
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Catch me if you can: Avoiding health and safety penalties
If your company faces an enormous penalty for breaking health and safety laws one option is to dissolve the company entirely. But is it right, wise, or even legal?
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CommentFriends disunited: Mixing business and pleasure
What’s wrong with agreeing a deal in the pub with a beer, a nod and a wink? After all, you’re mates, aren’t you? Well, sadly, those days are over. You must properly record everything
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NewsFurmans Electrical Contractors vs Elecref: working hours
Fenwick Elliott discusses a dispute over reasonable payment for hours of work
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NewsCourt hears of how two died after worker loosened bolts on crane
Unsupervised man adjusted tower crane, which then collapsed killing men who were on the jib
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NewsCalatrava awarded €30k compensation for design change
Spanish High Court rejects Spanish architect's €3m compensation claim for Bilbao bridge extension
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NewsBovis Lend Lease vs Trustees of the London Clinic: Loss, expenses and natural justice
The factsBovis applied for summary judgment for the enforcement of an adjudicator's decision. The dispute arose out of a contract made between Bovis and the clinic by which Bovis agreed to carry out and complete a redevelopment of a medical consulting facility. The contract was the JCT Standard Form (1998), ...
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Comment10 years is a long, long time: liability for defects or collapses
There are strict laws in the Emirates about defects that threaten a building’s stability, and you’re liable for a decade. So what can you do to avoid having to pay out?
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How to be good when times are bad: early contractor involvement
Early contractor involvement thrived during the good times. But can the system stand up in today’s tougher economic environment?
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NewsWatchdog to probe role of contractors in setting up blacklist
Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate 40 firms as Unite looks into claims that union officials informed on their own members
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CommentThe dance of debt: Costs of dispute
Some folk will perform the litigation tango over trifling disputes, and lose vast sums in the process. But at least they teach us a few new things about the law…
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Linnett to the rescue: Linnett vs Halliwell
A party can’t get out of coughing up its fair share of an adjudicator’s fees by quibbling about jurisdiction after the event (we have one Christopher Linnett to thank for that)
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CommentRenegotiating tenders in Dubai
Has your UAE client asked you to take a pay cut? Here are some tips from lawyers on minimising the pain
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NewsDisquiet in the ranks
The data raid that discovered a construction worker blacklist has legal implications for the companies and individuals involved
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NewsCivil Procedure Rules: Dalkia Energy and Technical Services vs Bell Group
Fenwick Elliot discusses a row over terms of a station repair project
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NewsGreen for go: sustainability in the JCT contract
Keeping an eye on sustainability during the credit crunch shouldn't be too hard, with the help of the JCT's new guidance note
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NewsBuyers on two more Bellway estates plan legal action
Residents claim value of homes has fallen up to £30,000 after units were sold for social housing
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CommentMea culpa: Disputes from the architect's point of view
The tale an architect wants a building to tell can turn into a shaggy dog story if the builders doesn’t want to tell it as well... and if they aren’t distracted by people like me
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CommentFair enough?: Breaching natural justice
The case of Dorchester vs Vivid raised the familiar question of when an adjudication breaches natural justice. Here’s what the judge had to say…
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A guide to a legal labyrinth: Claiming from the insurer
How do you make a claim against a consultant that has no money, but does have an insurance policy? Simple: you claim against its insurer. Hang on... did I say ‘simple’?
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CommentCan you dig it?: Retaining planning permission
Money matters: Many developers are keen to retain planning permission for stalled schemes until the property market recovers, but this is fraught with complications