More Comment – Page 683
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At risk from the neighbours
The respondent commenced excavation and piling works on a property neighbouring the appellants’ property and served a party wall notice after the works had commenced. Cracks appeared in the appellants’ property, which the appellants alleged were caused by the works being carried out by the respondent.
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CommentEvolutionary politics
Thumping great overspend though it was, Holyrood could help the government turn its current survival-of-the-fittest approach into a best-practice blueprint
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CommentTwist and shout
liquidated damages clause has advantages for employer and contractor. So how come the latter is so keen to wriggle out of it when it comes into play?
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CommentLiving with The Others
Hovering above the real people doing real jobs on real site is a vast ghostly world of contract documents and legal obligations. How should the two interact?
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Watch your backs …
The Office of Fair Trading is planning up to 65 investigations into anti-competitive behaviour in construction. What should you do if one of them is aimed at you?
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One in the eye for Amicus
Despite the concerns of Amicus about the use of retina scans for site security at Heathrow Terminal 5 (17 December, page 9), I can only think that anything that prevents unwanted access to sites is a good thing.
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Come on, Colin
Colin Harding’s jaundiced and outdated view of the modern UK construction industry ignores the tremendous progress made in productivity, innovation and profitability over the past 10 years (17 December, page 21).
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Alsop’s fables
Frivolity, we know, is part of the festive season, but nonetheless it should be no excuse for sloppy journalism.
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The whiff of bias
A&S Enterprises Ltd, the claimant, sought to enforce the judgment of an adjudicator against Kema Holdings Ltd. The defendant was ordered to pay £89,475.86. The claimant was a building contractor carrying out work in respect of a development in Alfreton, Derbyshire. The contract was a JCT 1998 Edition with ...
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Wonders & blunders
Nick Mason pins a medal on a relic of Victorian engineering, but regrets his mispent youth as an architecture critic
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Punishing penalty
P&O operated a freight service and a yard at the port at Liverpool. In the yard P&O employees loaded and off-loaded containers to and from ferries. The containers were lifted from the HGVs by large trucks. An employee of P&O standing in the yard was struck by one of these ...
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CommentThe dismal profession
How has architecture come to be such a regulated, disciplined, controlled and artistically emasculated business? And what can be done to save it?
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CommentCome closer, my dears …
Want to know the future? Then cross our very own legal astrologer’s palm with silver as he gazes into his crystal ball and makes his predictions for 2005
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Interview: Rupert Jackson
Just three months into the job, the judge in charge of the Technology and Construction Court has already established a reformist agenda.
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CommentSome relationship advice
Dear Tony, I have been seeing a contractor for some time now, and although he says he loves me, he will not commit to a serious relationship. What should I do?
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Playing by the same rules
I read with interest the article on the Glendoe hydroelectric power project in Scotland (3 December, page 10).