Opinion – Page 581
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Our 75 million new neighbours
I'd like to bid a nervous welcome to the new workers joining the European Union's labour force tomorrow.
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Vital surface issues
This was an appeal by the claimant from the first instance decision dismissing a claim for damages arising from an accident. A child, K, was playing in a communal garden controlled by Portsmouth City Council. She tripped on stone in a gravel path leading to the garden and sustained an ...
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Get Cracking
"I don't know much about coding," one housebuilder told me as I researched this issue's cover feature. Lucky man.
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Legal twister
This is a game in which players pretend to be appeal court judges and then try to get themselves into ludicrous positions. Here's how it's done
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CommentKate's impossible dream
Kate Barker damned the construction industry in her report to the government. But she doesn't understand the facts whereof she speaks. So here they are
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Dear Barbara,
Just a quick note, because I know you'll be getting advice in both ears at once courtesy of everyone from Tony Blair and Sir Steve Redgrave to the drivers of Hackney carriages and those lunatics who call radio phone-ins at 3am.
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Don't get caught in cahoots
Tough anti-cartel legislation has enabled the authorities to crack down on price-fixers. To avoid hefty fines, firms must know when co-operation ends and collusion begins
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An open question
The full implications of the Disability Discrimination Act will shortly compel developers to sort out any access issues they may have – or risk paying a hefty price
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CommentForeword: Tony Blair
A message of support from the prime minister for the 10th annual Building Awards 2004
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Green light for government
The defendant approved a development of an accommodation centre for asylum seekers. The development was to be on land owned by the Home Office, but would be operated by its chosen contractor, who would be granted a lease of the land before the development commenced. There had been local opposition ...
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CommentInnocence and experience
If an adjudicator sees something they shouldn't, is there any way that they can escape a charge of bias? Here's how one adjudicator tackled the problem
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Food for thought
We invite you to chew over the main issues arising from the proposed review of the Construction Act, while he helps himself to a large slice of humble pie …
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Living on one's wits
Small practices are the tiny, furry mammals skipping under the scaly feet of industry dinosaurs, with an agility and an imagination that they can't begin to grasp
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Pressure testing the HBF
The Sustainable Buildings Task Group. It doesn't sound like a revolutionary cabal.
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We can buy Poland!
Poland's accession to the European Union in May will fire a starting pistol for foreign investors who want to get their hands on the country's land
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Novation without tears
In the wake of Blyth & Blyth, novation agreements have needed clarification. But will the publication of not one but two standard forms be a help or a hindrance?
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CommentBe reasonable, Ann
A reader writes Stavry Onissiphorou of ACE picks a good-natured – and closely argued – fight with Ann Minogue over whether it’s fair for consultants to limit their liabilities