Legal – Page 136
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CommentAdjudication awards: Logical deductions
If a party loses an adjudication and is ordered to pay up, can it set this sum off against anything it thinks it is owed from a subsequent adjudication award?
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NewsJohn Doyle fined for worker falling from scaffolding
Contractor pleads guilty after worker falls six meters on Liverpool One development
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NewsHomebuyers forced to complete abandoned deals
Developers and builders seek legal action to enforce contracts ditched through lack of finance
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OFT special: The cost of a phone call
If you don’t want the job, just ask for too much money and you won’t get it. Nobody can touch you. Phone a friend for a cover price, though, and you’re liable for millions
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NewsTwo firms fined for exposing workers to asbestos
Noble Gift Packaging and A&T Roofing plead guilty to breaches leading to workers and public being exposed to deadly asbestos fibres
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NewsBalfour Beatty's £1.4m award upheld after legal wrangle with Shepherd
Mr Justice Akenhead enforces adjudicator's decision, despite criticizing it for poor grammar and “unconventional sentence structure”
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CommentJCT homeowner contract: Get the picture?
The JCT’s contract for home extenders is a very useful document, not least because it turns a lot of those complicated words into drawings we can all understand
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CommentGaps in the framework
If you’ve got a framework, a lot of contractual stuff is written into it. But there are still vital clauses that have to be agreed on the jobs themselves – so what happens if they aren’t?
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NewsExperts say gem of Tanzania is "worthless"
2kg ruby named as asset by Wrekin construction is worth "about £100"
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NewsSix recruitment agencies fined £39m for price-fixing
OFT gives two firms immunity for providing information on cartel guilty of collective boycotting and fixing fee rates
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NewsHundreds of tower blocks not fire checked
BBC investigation after Lakanal House tragedy reveals councils committing criminal offence of failing to carry out fire risk assessments
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NewsMabey & Johnson guilty of overseas corruption
Bridge contractor pleads guilty to charges of corruption in Jamaica, Ghana and Iraq
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NewsClients set to blacklist cover-pricing contractors
£1.2bn consortium could drop OFT firms from deals as councils plan compensation claims
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NewsOFT: councils can sue guilty contractors
Watchdog says legal action and blacklisting would be 'understandable'
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CommentSo crazy it might be true
We’re so conditioned to looking at the world in a particular way we stop thinking about it. But what if it is, in fact, quite wrong? And what could prompt us to realise it is?
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CommentTake the fifth: Liability for design mistakes
If you’re an architect, and you suddenly realise that you’ve made a mistake, do you have a duty to tell your client about it? Well, that all depends
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NewsLocals launch Wigan BSF legal challenge
Opponents to new 'super school' scheme want land to be ringfenced for community use
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NewsIs it still cover pricing without the phone call?
The OFT has outlawed cover pricing, but that won’t stop firms putting in high bids so they lose contracts they can’t cope with
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NewsOFT: 'Councils are free to sue'
Director in charge of competition body's bid-rigging inquiry says local authorities should feel free to take legal action against guilty firms
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NewsDurkan vows to fight OFT over subdivision's £3.1m fine
Contractor disputes liability for cover-pricing at Concentra, which it sold off in 2007