More Comment – Page 687
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CommentMeeting Mr Kurtz
The chilling tale of a man’s journey in the dark heart of the construction industry … which, if you ever need to find it, is located in Hounslow
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CommentOpen mike: The QS’s apprentice
The increasing amount of debt carried by today’s graduates creates an opportunity to reshape the early relationship between employer and employee …
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CommentMedical complaints
“A special relationship in which one partner takes all the time and the other gives all the time is not a partnership but an exploitation. That is what exists now. It is time it stopped.” That was Gerald Kaufman talking this week about the US-UK alliance. But there are a ...
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Who can you trust?
lients ought to realise that lawyers and expert have their own reasons for attacking or defending a procurement route. No advice is completely objective
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CommentWhen can you be unfair?
djudicators who ignore the rules of natural justice in their conduct may not fall foul of the courts, but they should be given a damn good thrashing anyway
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Further to Mr Bingham …
nd talking of Amec vs Whitefriars, here’s some other aspects of the case that Tony Bingham didn’t cover – such as the ‘bullying’ of the adjudicator
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What happens at the end
ave you read your contract thoroughly? Right to the end? If you did, and you spotted the hidden ‘entire agreement clause’, give yourself two Scoobie snacks
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Wonders & blunders
Two London residences make up Michael Winner’s choices – one of which he liked so much that he bought it himself
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Don’t forget to check
The defendant building contractor secured a contract to carry out works of improvement to a sewage treatment works owned and operated by the claimant water company that treated wastewater. The claimant’s engagement of the defendant was under the terms of a design and build contract which incorporated a specification that ...
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CommentA great leap forward
With its grand entrance, impressive atrium, relaxed restaurants and break-out spaces, Bexley Academy in south-east London is more blue-chip corporate headquarters than secondary school.
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CommentPrivate investigations
What are adjudicators supposed to do when two raw parties to a dispute turn up with a case but no evidence? Play the neutral or act as a licensed sleuth?
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CommentNo job for an amateur
Arbitrators have turned their institute into a chartered body that enforces high professional standards … which they should now impose on adjudicators
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CommentTake a deep breath
It’s a strange thing, but often a consultant who is liable and has been negligent may be better protected than one who is liable but hasn’t been negligent
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A poser for Patricia
I was pleased to see your news item detailing Patricia Hewitt’s plans to “crack industry’s ‘men only’ culture” (29 October, page 13), although I can’t help feeling that we have been here before.
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Fresh blood at the RIBA
The RIBA council has in the past been accused of being too conservative in its thinking and edicts, and as with all institutions there is a tendency to be retrospective.
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Safety … mañana
Here’s a slightly disturbing picture I took in Spain recently of roofers working on a housing development.
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Small, but perfectly formed
So, architect Alain Head has the solution to our housing problems (29 October, page 28).
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French lesson
Whether Gus Alexander is writing about the dome, the Cambridge Cattle Market Development or his experiences on small-scale building contracts, he seems to put my thoughts into words nearly every time.