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CommentPrivileged position: How claims consultants can protect themselves from disclosure
Claims consultants may not have the same legal professional privilege as practicing lawyers, but they can explore another route to protect themselves from disclosure
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CommentWhen judges let rip: Obliterated by obsession
The amusingly acerbic judgment from a Canadian case offers a darker reminder of what happens when reason fails
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CommentObliterated by obsession
The amusingly acerbic judgment from a Canadian case offers a darker reminder of what happens when reason fails
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CommentEPCM: Win-win procurement
Engineering procurement and construction management is widely used abroad. Is it time for UK companies to look at how they can benefit from this model?
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VAT rules cripple business
Essentially we’re paying someone else’s tax for the privilege of acting as unpaid tax collectors for HMRC
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It could be like buying a car
We could choose the right base model for a building off the shelf and personalise it by colour, alloys, fabric, and so on
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CommentWhy Labour must think long term
Most political crises come and go in a short period, which is why it is more important than ever for the opposition to focus on the big issues if they are to regain power, writes David Blunkett
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CommentThe UK economy: Kill or cure
Recent figures show the UK economy is back in recession - and it’s the construction sector that put it there. In the first of a two-part look at the handling of the economic situation Joey Gardiner examines why the government’s course of treatment is failing to deliver a recovery
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CommentMy Digital Life… Robert Deatker
The Turner & Townsend project director on why he doesn’t own a Mac, vaporizing Network Rail employees and dancing around the sitting room to David Guetta
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CommentHansom: Critical condition
It’s all a bit confrontational this week as Giles Coren offers his opinion on the Shard and David Lock takes on Nick Raynsford… let’s hope Sir John Armitt finds more satisfaction in his role as wedding planner
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CommentWonders & blunders with Matt Lown
Matt Lown hails the impressive comeback of a sixties icon, and blows the whistle on a former MI6 building unconvincingly disguised as an apartment block
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CommentCrystallisation of disputes: Working Environments vs Greencoat Construction
In this case a Judge examined whether it was possible to severe an adjudicator’s decision to exclude issues that fell outside of a crystallised dispute
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CommentHow the 3% fall in construction output could have been worse
Brian Green praises hawk-eyed Office for National Statistics staff
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CommentThe bad side of good faith clauses
‘Good faith’ clauses might sound like a bit of modern touchy-feeliness, but they carry a real sting if you fail to heed them
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CommentThe secret schools report: Lessons from school
If the government continues to block access to vital schools data, it risks undermining its aim for school building in an era of austerity
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CommentCauses and loss: Pegasus vs Ernst & Young
A case against Ernst & Young sheds fresh light on an old chestnut - whether the new owner of transferred assets can sue for its predecessor’s alleged losses
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CommentNEC contracts: Don’t look back in anger
Engaging in retrospective re-evaluations of contractual terms undermines the forward-looking and co-operative nature of the NEC
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CommentHansom: Bit of a cover-up
From the site hoardings obscured by topiary to the 2012 Sir John Armitt swimsuit calendar, this column wonders when it’s best to keep some things under wraps …