Opinion – Page 584
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No busted flush
I must take issue with Nick Henchie's article "Mediation is a busted flush" (19 March, page 64), particularly the suggestion that the parties need to spend "massive amounts" to prepare a case for mediation and that mediators need to be involved "procedurally, often many months before the mediation, and ...
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The power of the mediator
Nick Henchie (19 March, page 64) suggests that many disputes successfully resolved by mediation would have been settled more cost-effectively had the parties engaged in "the most overlooked method of dispute resolution", namely good old fashioned, without prejudice meetings and face-to-face negotiations.I would guess that few, if any, industries ...
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Have a little faith, Tony
I was surprised and alarmed by my friend Tony Bingham's recent piece "Private prejudice" about the Court of Appeal's decision in CWS vs ICL (27 February, page 52).
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A game of dominoes
I am writing to express my full support for Roger Coonie, president of the Association of Technical Lighting and Access Specialists, on the issue of retentions abuse (23 January, page 33).
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Less risk in first party
I read with interest Robert Akenhead's article regarding the provision of all-risks insurance policies (20 February, page 49).
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He stands corrected
I always considered Hansom to be the (almost) perfect English gentleman, but my doubts were raised following one of the items in one of his columns (26 March, page 33). He referred to "the trooping of the colour" in Horse Guards Parade, London, when any ...
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CommentWonders & blunders
Tony Miller pays his respects to the shrine of natural history but finds no enlightenment in Le Courbusier’s celebrated chapel
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CommentMan bites dog
With the scent of unpaid levy in its nostrils, the CITB can be a bit of a rottweiler. Perhaps it needs to change its image and pay more attention to its product?
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Hunter becomes prey
It always pays to read the small print, especially when employers hide booby traps in it. Luckily, these traps are excellent guidance for the reform of the Construction Act
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In defence of Peabody
Your article "Dream Over" (12 March, page 18), was sensational reportage to say the least.
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Safe as a prefab house
In reply to your piece on the Peabody Trust and prefabrication, we have to move away from the chaos of a construction site towards the relative order of a factory.
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Knocking an opportunity
I hope that Wendy Coggan's remarks (Letters, 19 March) spur other RICS members to reply to our surveys.
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CommentPasta and paranoia
Rubber chicken takes in a trade fair in Bologna and discovers that the bella paese's historic love of all things beautiful extends to stoats' skulls, fossilised trees and, er, padlocks
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There's a limit to capping
The claimant, Westminster Building, tendered for building works in respect of a property owned by Mr Beckingham. The specification stated that the contract would be in the form of a JCT IFC 1998 incorporating amendments. A letter of intent dated 27 June 2002 instructed the claimant to proceed with the ...
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Why the Tories will win
The government's refusal to treat the construction industry as the special case it is has made it very difficult for Labour to triumph in next year's election
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Measure for measure
Insurers are providing shrinking cover on terrorism and asbestos risks. Now consultants have new standard contract terms that shrink their liabilities to match
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Pinned and needled
A client's attempts to wriggle out of adjudication on three tricky points of law were quashed by one very clever adjudicator – and he wasn't even a lawyer