Opinion – Page 626
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My Stirling Prize hell
The fashion guru dragooned onto the Stirling Prize panel lifts the lid on the five days of relentless architecture that preceded Saturday's big night
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Prescott takes control
John Prescott's recent changes to regeneration policy have persuaded some that things might really get better for deprived communities. And they might, too …
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Now even friendlier
Use new formula Adjudication Rules™ from TeCSA, the kinder way to get rid of stubborn, dried in disputes (now comes with 100% enforcement guarantee!)
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Tales you lose
Don't get too smug reading about Jeffrey Archer's latest chiding – his case holds a warning to all of us about the danger of telling porkies and making up evidence
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What's yours is mine
Guidance has been published on what happens when a firm makes a windfall profit by refinancing a PFI. You have been warned …
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Unconscionable temerity
Law and practice on contractors' bonds is tilted in favour of the employers who call on them – which they do, often without good cause. Time for a change
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Invisible pleasures
Medieval builders who died before their cathedrals were finished were lucky, because once a building's built, everything it could be is erased by what it is
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Step on the accelerator
Sir John Egan did well to get construction to give itself an overhaul. Now his successor, Peter Rogers, needs to get the whole industry moving in the right direction
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We need a New Model PFI
And about bloody time. After five years of obfuscation, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown faced down the unions in Blackpool over the PFI (see news).
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Death by exposure
The state of the professional indemnity insurance market is so bad that firms unlucky enough to be hit by several claims a year may well be ruined
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Do yourself a mischief
Construction professionals won't want to be without these new guides – even if they do have to get a hernia picking up the first, Emden's Construction Law
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A question of … timing
The 28-day deadline gives neither the parties nor the adjudicator proper time to ensure that quality decisions are reached. We need a more sensible period
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The avenger
It was a bank holiday when the call came. Emergency gas leak, or so they thought. Here was a chance to pay back all those years of being messed around …
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This really works …
The pre-action protocol aims to make litigation less nasty by giving litigants the chance to be civil to one another. To the surprise of its opponents, it does so
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Mind the hidden extras
The construction courts have reinterpreted two JCT contracts – which will land many design-and-build firms with more risk than they'd bargained for
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Why we're too white
So Prince Charles thinks farmers are more victimised than blacks or gays.