Opinion – Page 625
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Give them their due
The Construction Act's payment provisions are there to promote certainty of payment: nothing should stop the payee from knowing where it stands on pay day
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Prescott under fire
John Prescott has more to worry about right now than his deteriorating relationship with housebuilders (pages 24-25). Planning chaos is a political sideshow alongside the main drama of the firefighters' dispute and the threat – amid a London teachers' strike – of a new winter of discontent. But, although no ...
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Reflex reaction
Critics of the public–private partnership dwell on fledgling problems, but these are nothing that can't be solved. Better that than no new schools or hospitals …
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An unprecedented future
Much is said about our industry learning from its experiences, yet here we are throwing away a wealth of knowledge on points of law and principle
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Ten years later …
Should you expect compensation if someone does you damage they should have foreseen? Of course. But what if it goes on for an unforeseeable length of time?
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Ways of making you talk
It was always thought that a clause in a contract that says parties will mediate before they litigate wasn't that enforceable. After the following case, we know different
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Cleaning up the pensions mess
A year after Building warned of construction's pensions time bomb, employers and staff alike are getting the jitters about the cost of retirement. Our annual Hays Montrose/Building careers survey reveals that more than half of readers are worried about pensions, and – as a result – expect to work beyond ...
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We're not the only ones
Like construction, the pensions industry has failed to focus on what its customers need. It should take a leaf out of our book and indulge in some free-thinking
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The war of all against all
The House of Lords has just given us key tests to decide who wins when members of a project team try to pin liability on each other
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Goodbye to all that
After 20 years teaching craft skills, this lecturer has had enough. Here he explains how a debased system and useless students turned a fine job into his definition of hell
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In pursuit of the civil
The pre-action protocol is supposedly turning solicitors into nice people. But in the absence of evidence that it's working, are there other ways of meeting its aims?
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A night on the tiles
Practising flamenco late at night in the room above mine may be your idea of fun. But if it disturbs my sleep and I take you to court, it may hurt you in the castanets
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Endgame on the underground
Is it nearly the end of the line for the part-privatisation of London's Tube? A year and a half after they were first chosen as the preferred bidders, the Metronet and Tube Lines consortiums were due to finalise their deals this month. But as passengers so often find, delays are ...
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Minority report
Weighty reports are all very well, but they're not the best way to get firms to reach out to women and ethnic minorities. We need positive recruitment practices
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What's wrong with simple?
The Contracts (Right of Third Parties) Act makes collateral warranties and their bureaucratic complications redundant. Yet some lawyers seem reluctant to see them go
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The great unknown
Not knowing the law used to be no excuse for anything. But now the courts are telling us that it can be a helpful point to raise in a contractual dispute