All Legal articles – Page 75
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NewsGovernment primes Islamic bond to boost UK infrastructure
UK aims to launch £200m Sharia-compliant bond next year
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NewsGovernment to keep hold of roads standards
Plans to spin-out the Highways Agency would still see government keep control of design requirements
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NewsTata Steel plans 500 job cuts
Cuts to fall in its ‘Long Products’ business that serves the construction sector
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CommentLegal costs and interest: Calculators at dawn
The parties in the Museum of Liverpool case have just trooped back into court to settle the matter of legal costs and interest to be paid - a battle almost as contentious as the case itself
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NewsGreenpeace drops Hinkley legal challenge
But £16bn nuclear project still facing legal challenge from Ireland’s National Trust
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CommentDo your paperwork
Design-and-build with novation is an attempt to reconcile the conflicting requirements of single-point responsibility and design control, but to work it needs clarity from the start
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CommentCollaboration: All for one and one for all
Alliancing, a form of collaborative working, can make for a non-contentious relationship between parties, foster a no claim/no blame culture and keep costs down. What’s not to like?
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CommentOUP Construction Adjudication and Payments Handbook: Hernia-inducing tome
OUP’s Construction Adjudication and Payments Handbook is a wonderful resource, with key cases and commentary to boot – but at 542 pages, why oh why is there no online version?
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CommentMake sure you do your homework
This case demonstrates the importance of checking the financial standing of who you contract with
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CommentPlanning for stadiums: A sporting chance
Applying to build a sports stadium in an urban area can lead to a number of planning issues. But developers and contractors should point out the benefits it can bring to the community
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NewsLabour inspectors barred at Vinci’s Qatar site
International inspectors gathering evidence on conditions of Qatar construction workers turned away by officials
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CommentThe benefit of experience
Age may not lead to wisdom, but looking back at her days as a junior solicitor Ann Minogue finds that she now has some of the answers to the things she did not understand back then
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NewsMajority of individuals on blacklist still need to be identified
Over four-fifths of people on construction blacklist remain unidentified almost five years after its discovery
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CommentChoose your weapon
A contractor used a procedural trap to try to torpedo an adjudicator’s decision against it. Unfortunately for the contractor, it blew up in its face
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CommentThorns in the green shoots
Contractors are still using some of the dirty tricks they learned in the depths of recession to squeeze supply chains. But they may not get away with it for much longer
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NewsKeller denies fault in multimillion-pound dispute
Piling specialist disputes claim that its work on £40m wine warehouse at centre of multimillion-pound legal wrangle was faulty
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CommentHow viable will adjudication be in future?
The recent Museum of Liverpool has huge implications for adjudication costs and makes it a much riskier undertaking for smaller firms
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NewsPolice 'did collude with construction blacklist'
Police watchdog has told lawyers representing victims of construction blacklisting that police did provide information to the Consulting Association
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CommentAll change: CDM regs
The HSE has indicated that changes to the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations due in 2014 are likely to be wide ranging and focused on more than cutting red tape
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NewsLegal threat to UK firms over Qatar deaths laid bare
Lawyers warn individuals could face arrest and firms be held liable for breaches by subcontractors