Opinion – Page 634
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Let's get this straight
The Court of Appeal decision in Parsons vs Purac does not offer the losing party to an adjudication a way out of paying – whatever it said in Building
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Legal letters
Handle with careGillian Birkby ("The ASP with a sting in its tail", 10 May, pages 50-51) identified some areas in which those using application service providers (ASP) to operate their extranets have to be wary. I am concerned that the honeyed words of the marketers have temporarily blinded her to ...
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You're on your own
Two recent decisions in the House of Lords have made the scope for claiming contribution from other negligent parties much narrower than was thought
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See you, Jimmy
Got a dispute with your builder? Then try to work it out without bothering the Court of Appeal – regardless of what you may have heard on Radio 2
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Anatomy of a fiasco
As the World Cup kicks off in the beautiful (and completed) arenas of Japan and South Korea, our attention is again on England’s beautiful (but unstarted) stadium in Wembley. Three consultants’ reports presented to MPs last week cast new light on the cost of the troubled project and the controversial ...
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Hell on Earth
Abandoned cars are one thing, but some cities are littered with abandoned homes. Can draft planning guidance bring hope to areas that have abandoned it?
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A journey without maps
The success of a project is often down to the people working on it, but clarity as to who does what, as well as organisational structure, seem to be all-important
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The moral law
A little-known fact is that architects have the same 'moral' rights over their buildings as writers have over their novels. But what does that mean for the practice?
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Getting all the credit
You pay interest on the money you owe the bank, but the contractor that owes you cash doesn't. That's hardly fair, and the courts have belatedly noticed
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In the soup
One week you're sharing friendly lunches, the next you're at each other's throats. It's what happens when your star QS leaves – and takes your clients with him
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Making sense of Potters Bar
We know what caused the Potters Bar rail crash, but we still don't know who. Jarvis, which is responsible for the track, claims to have evidence that the faulty points were sabotaged – a possibility highlighted in Building last week, despite being dismissed by rail experts. Investigators seem adamant that ...
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Skills scheming
Registration of skilled workers could be a boost for the industry – if the information was not being used for less worthy purposes such as poaching
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Loosening the apron strings
Is adjudication now old enough to make its own way in the world or will it be forever under the watchful eye of the courts?
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Decent proposals
The Law Commission is proposing to simplify the rules on limitation periods. Given the present confusion, the changes cannot come soon enough
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Guilty as charged
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators wants to levy its members so it can afford to put them on trial. Surely there's a better way of dealing with incompetence?
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The industry’s Beckenbauer
Mott MacDonald’s merger with Franklin + Andrews, exclusively revealed in Building last week, reopens the debate about the future of QSs. Martin Bishop, Franklin + Andrews’ chairman, thinks copycat mergers are likely, as is another round of soul searching for QSs (page 20). Bishop saw no future in independence, and ...