Opinion – Page 578
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CommentUp the workers
This is another everyday story of self-employment and rights and conditions at work. Redrow thought it had a contract and that was it. Wrong, wrong wrong!
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A piece of the action
In America, lawyers can take a percentage of litigation proceeds. Here we regard that practice as reprehensible. But are English fee arrangements really so different?
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Mirror image
He probably won't be frogmarched from his office sans jacket, but Kevin Hyde, Jarvis' chief executive, may be about to suffer a similar fate to that which befell the former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan last Friday: the prospect of being ousted by his company's investors (see news).
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Ignore the moaners
Mediation is here to stay, despite the occasional hiccup and the odd shot from Building columnists – but it is important to choose mediators who know what they're doing
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The system doesn't work
How about the Construction Industry Training Board assisting existing NVQ students a bit more?
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Our hidden death toll
I feel that the Health and Safety Executive's latest statistics (16 April, page 14), which show that the number of site fatalities is decreasing slightly, needs to be put into context.
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Misdirected directives
Your article "NHBC seeks judicial review of European Union insurance directive" (7 May, page 15) suggests that the National House Building Council is not within the remit of the Financial Services Authority.
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It's a fair cap, Ann
Ann Minogue (8 April, page 49) chastises construction consultants for seeking to limit liability.
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TV trial was the only way
I read with interest your article on the public image of housebuilders and the grillings they receive on consumer programmes such as Watchdog (16 April, page 42).
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Hey, it was just a question …
Your news feature (16 April 2004), entitled "The government is evolving the ideal eco-friendly home for the 21st century.
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Terms of engagement
Only a lawyer would put an “offer and acceptance” in the same frame as adultery (Tony Bingham, 24 May, page 54). We in the industry have always known it’s about prostitution, and whether it’s legal is secondary …
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CommentOpen mike: Eve of destruction
Architect Owen Luder reckons his infamous Tricorn Centre was unjustly demolished without a fair trial; now we must stop his Get Carter car park suffering the same fate
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Getting into Harvard
The business press doesn't write about construction's management strategies, universities don't study them … Are they trying to tell us something?
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A taxing issue
The defendant had a contract to remove about 425,000 tonnes of material from the site of a new warehouse and lorry park. The claimant sought to require the defendant to register for the aggregates levy pursuant to Section 24(2) of the Finance Act 2001 ("the Act"). The defendant maintained that ...
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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Ann Minogue welcomes us to the tedious, futile, wasteful, aggressive, pointless, hypocritical, irrelevant, bullying, baffling and pretentious world of her top 10 pet hates
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CommentPicking the ponies
The people who hire adjudicators want intelligent, nimble beasts that cover the ground at a gallop while safely leaping legal hurdles. But how can they get them?
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The asbestos challenge
Asbestos rules are about to be updated, and they affect all those who manage business properties. And if you don't comply, you may face criminal charges
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10 years on
The review of the Construction Act is not going to be Son of Constructing the Team – there aren't enough hours in the day – but it will be timely