Opinion – Page 579
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CommentStep right in
By not taking extra time to decide the case, an adjudicator led the parties straight to the courtroom door – where they were greeted by a welcoming judge
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Golden gifts, wrapped in red tape
Housing associations have more than £3bn to give to the construction industry in the next three years. But to win some of it, you need to get a little legal advice
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Hackett's hatchet job
Three weeks ago, Jeremy Hackett wrote a piece suggesting that adjudication was in a state of crisis. This is not true. On the contrary, it is popular and working well
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CommentA reader writes: The big squeeze
Architect Charles Thomson endorses George Santayana's view that those who forget the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat them. So here's a reminder
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Quite a spread
A total of 71 lucky housing associations and their partners are enjoying a feast of sizeable two-year funding allocations from the Housing Corporation. The move away from scheme-by-scheme grant funding to working with a smaller number of preferred partners gives those partners the security and the clout to deliver new ...
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CommentPeter rogers
While the construction industry is building T5, T5 is rebuilding the construction industry. Let me explain …
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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 …