Opinion – Page 562
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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.
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The true cost
With reference to the adjudication survey on the Building website (29 October, page 15) and concern about the rise in adjudicator’s fees, it is commendable that someone is trying to get statistical information in order to better analyse the benefits or otherwise of adjudication.
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Regal, but not necessarily legal
With reference to your recent articles on professional organisations and their amalgamation into one body, I wonder if any of the present organisations have considered what the effect of the changes to the EU constitution might be.
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CommentMystic Michael
Can we gaze into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow? Or, for that matter, say how the Construction Act will be reformed …
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Reasons to be considered
Tame made an application under Section 68 of the 1996 Arbitration Act to challenge an arbitrator’s award. More particularly, Tame sought to rely on the reasons published by the arbitrator separately from the award expressly on terms that no use should be made of them in any proceeding relating to ...
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CommentHow our house fell down
British domestic design in the 20th century is a story of architectural vandalism committed by the very rich and eagerly emulated by the middle class
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CommentBlind eyes and bloody kids
Contractors have to be on their guard against potential defects or dangers even though they aren’t covered in the contract – as these cases illustrate
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No room for horse traders
Once upon a time, you could end a dispute with a global settlement and trot off to your insurer to ask for compensation. It is no longer that simple