Neil White

Neil White

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    Guarding your provisions

    2001-01-05T00:00:00

    Collateral warranties require care and attention. Watch out for assignments, notice clauses, duration, entrenched rights in contract, tort and statute, and, of course, jurisdiction.

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    Testing the limits

    2000-09-29T00:00:00

    The fifth in this series of articles on collateral warranties looks at limitation provisions and limits on liability.

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    Who’ll pay for this?

    2000-08-04T00:00:00

    The fourth in the series of articles on collateral warranties looks at what is at stake in negotiations over net contribution clauses and professional indemnity insurance.

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    When the bank steps in …

    2000-06-02T00:00:00

    The third article in our guide to collateral warranties looks at how a beneficiary “steps in” to a scheme, and what to do with licences for design copyright.

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    What’s the meaning of this?

    2000-02-25T00:00:00

    Collateral warranties are highly controversial, ferociously contested and poorly understood. This is the first article in a series intended to tackle the third of these problems.

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    Access all areas

    2000-01-14T00:00:00

    Important provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 take effect in 2004. Not to worry then? Hardly. The courts are likely to take a dim view of any failure to improve access before the clauses comes into force.

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    Trying cases

    1999-09-10T00:00:00

    Requirements to use "best endeavours" and "reasonable endeavours" appear in many construction contracts, but do they mean you can sue somebody if you think they're not trying hard enough?

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    Woolf’s teeth

    1999-08-06T00:00:00

    An important element of the Woolf reform is the idea of a pre-action protocol, which governs how parties should behave before litigation starts. Fail to follow it and the court can now take a big chunk out of you.