Opinion – Page 590
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CommentGripping stuff
Professional negligence claims can be damned difficult, so is it asking too much to create a breed of adjudicators capable of grasping the issues?
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The cynic's bestiary
As you'd expect, a doctrine such as partnering that preaches co-operation for the greater good will be met with scepticism. Here's how to identify and tackle it
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Guilt by association
Contractors may feel a strange empathy this week with those at the centre of the Hutton inquiry.
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Keep taking the supplements
The new Change Management Supplement hopes to give the Delay and Disruption Protocol a contractual role – but some of it is very hard to swallow
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CommentThe truth about Ricky
A reader writes - In the latest column by Building readers, Peter Starbuck attacks Ricky Tomlinson's account of events leading to the trial of the Shrewsbury two – or was it seven?
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A matter of interest
This was an appeal by the claimant against a costs order made by the first instance judge following a successful appeal in respect of the sum of money awarded to him as damages. The judge had awarded the claimant £81,182 plus interest on a total claim for over £4.3m, but ...
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C'mon everybody
Here are 10 steps to making the world a better place to do business in – and all can be adopted without converting to Buddhism, becoming celibate or giving up alcohol
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CommentShadows and doubt
An adjudicator's decision can be thrown out over the merest hint of unfairness. Good news for the system's integrity, bad news for parties left in limbo
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A turn for the worse
A decade of revolutionary culture change seems to have culminated in the triumph of a class of supervisor bureaucrats. The real workers are back where they started
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You’ll pay for this
Why are construction leaders so reluctant to join the political fray over tuition fees?
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Scotland is freezing
The Human Rights Act limited Scottish claimants' rights to freeze defendants' assets before judgment. But a recent case may encourage this tool to be used more
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I've put the bomb there
If a project manager supervises the installation of a fire risk, then warns its client that it has installed a fire risk, does the warning absolve it of blame after the inevitable fire?
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Thanks, partner!
From my experience of working in Holland, the way in which Ballast Nedam has treated staff and subcontractors at Ballast UK comes as no surprise.
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Under guarantee
I would like to offer some support and consolation to those subcontrators owed money by Ballast.
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We're all doomed
I want to express my outrage at the government's proposal to increase tuition fees to undergraduates.
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Name that toon
You refer, in the issue of 9 January (page 38), to the Gateshead Music Centre as a building due for completion in 2004, and claim that "the city of Newcastle will be gaining a Lord Foster landmark". However Gateshead is on one bank of the Tyne and Newcastle is ...
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What's with Duncan Wallace?
Mr Duncan Wallace is the possessor of a mighty intellect and has provided a supplement (Hudson's Building & Engineering Contracts 11th Edition First Supplement), which is comprehensive and scholarly.