Opinion – Page 638
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Questions of identity
Are you thinking of turning your firm into a limited liability partnership? If so, you should be aware that the transition involves some fundamental changes …
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Sock it to 'em, RICS
The RICS has just come out with some advice for the courageous people who take on the role of adjudicator. Trouble is, it doesn't quite know what to tell them …
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In it up to their necks
Water companies have largely escaped liability where sewers have caused repeated flooding but from now they'll have to fix the problem or pay up
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No great Sheikhs
A case in the High Court provides an interesting angle on the obedience owed by parties to an adjudicator's decision. Let's hope they appreciate it in Qatar …
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How far we've come
Constructing the Team suggested about 50 ways to modernise the construction industry. Eight years on, most of these have been implemented
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Have you noticed the time?
Contractors can have their work cut out trying to get an extension of time. But sometimes the stringent conditions placed on them can backfire on the employer
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Legal letters
Nick Henchie's guide to ways of dodging adjudication and Andrew Pike's call to scrap JCT contracts provoked a bulging postbag. Here's a small selection of readers' thoughts …
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Beyond these shores
If you're carrying out a construction project abroad, you need to be aware of the potential pitfalls. Start by finding out which country's law applies
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Jams and pile-ups ahead
The sequence of notices on payment and suspension is in a right tangle. Recent decisions by both judges and adjudicators only tighten the knots
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Was Gaudí any good?
As one grows up, eccentricity becomes charming in people – but in architecture, it's can get bit too close to kitsch for comfort
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Losing your inhibitions
In Scotland? Worried that the chap you're in dispute with is about to scarper? You used to be able to have his assets frozen in a jiffy. Not any more …
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New life in old claims
Two recent cases mean that concealed defects can still come back to haunt builders, even if they are found many years after the building is completed
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Protect and survive
Small businesses suffer most from the 'domino effect' of insolvency in the construction industry. Missed opportunities to put things right mean the task is now urgent
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Colourful language
The JCT is busy churning out new forms of contract: a blue one for subbies, orange ones for construction managers and a transparent one for homeowners
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Why Blair should worry
Scandal to a politician is like manure to a pig farmer – an inevitable, if not enjoyable, part of the job. However, it can prise power from the strongest PMs
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Just the ticket
One of the attractions of making Railtrack's successor a company limited by guarantee is that neither the government nor its members will go down if it flops
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All or nothing at all
If you challenge an adjudicator's decision, then you have to take it on in its entirety. Indicate that there are parts of it you accept, and you will lose everything