Opinion – Page 606
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Not much to look forward to
Last year a Building/Hays Montrose survey found that more than half of the magazine's readers were worried about their pensions. And they were right to be concerned.
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Reveal all before you decide
Stansell was a building contractor carrying out work in Union Street, Bristol. It engaged RSL as a subcontractor. The subcontract was based on the Standard Form of Domestic Sub-contract DOM/2 1981 edition (reprinted in 1998) incorporating amendments 1-8. Clause 38 contained adjudication provisions. A dispute arose in ...
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Making plans for Nigel
Small, efficient firms are being squeezed out by a government that is hand-in-glove with big construction. So, here are some suggestions for our new minister
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Logic of the madhouse
The government is trying to improve housing supply by making housebuilders' job so onerous that they would rather build their homes in China than Chingford
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Being sat on by a hippo
Memo to Nigel Griffiths: More and more small, solvent firms are being squashed by large, insolvent ones. At present they have almost no protection. Time to step in?
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CommentNo sex please
In their enthusiasm to make their case, disputants are likely to ‘sex up’ evidence. But good adjudicators, and good prime ministers, ought to be immune to spin
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After the fall
In the absence of a conventional government in Iraq, what is the legal status of contracts signed with state bodies? And how about those signed with Saddam's regime?
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Don't be a Boynton
When a dream home extension is delayed and defective, the client may win our sympathy. But winning damages and avoiding costs requires hard evidence
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A question of justification
Are Britain's bosses overpaid? This question has been dominating the City pages over the past few months, particularly after the £22m severance deal struck by Jean-Pierre Garnier, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline.
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A missed opportunity
The appellant, Warborough, challenged an award in a rent review arbitration on the grounds that there had been serious irregularity for the purposes of section 68 Arbitration Act 1996. The arbitrator had made an award based on comparable nearby premises put forward by Warborough's surveyor, but made an adjustment favourable ...
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The very idea!
You may think consultants own the intellectual property rights in their work – but certain contracts transfer them to the client. Don't sign away your ingenuity
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CommentAim for the head
David Blunkett's corporate manslaughter bill may satisfy public demand to see bad managers punished, but it looks like it is going to apply to a great many people
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The case against Kaufman
Gerald Kaufman has fought a campaign against London's Olympic bid that is as lengthy is it has been lonely. Here's why he should now give up the struggle
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CommentWonders & blunders
Michael Ankers reflects on two faces of construction – one beaming from ear to ear, the other snarling like a sheep-killing dog
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Adjudication on the home front
The employers were Mr Legg and Ms Carver, the owners of a house at 188a Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale, London. An architect prepared drawings and a specification for the proposed refurbishment works to the property. The employers were residential occupiers for the purposes of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration ...
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Massive retaliation
Recent changes to the Enterprise Act mean that anyone involved in forming a cartel will face crippling fines, and individual managers could get five years in prison
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For richer, for poorer
Living with your project partner is about as blissfully straightforward as living with the other kind. But, as you mother would say, you've got to work at making it work
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Home truths in Lijnbaan
The RIBA has just taken itself off to Rotterdam to work out what regeneration's all about. And if you think it's a certain city's loft apartments, you'd be much mistaken
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