Rudi Klein asserted that 鈥渢raditional procurement methods are so needlessly wasteful that a consultant or solicitor who advises a client to adopt them may be guilty of negligence鈥�

The late Duncan Wallace, who wrote the later editions of Hudson鈥檚 好色先生TV and Engineering Contracts, made a similar well-publicised statement more than 25 years ago, to the effect that any architect who advises a client to use a JCT contract may be guilty of negligence. Duncan Wallace鈥檚 prediction never came to pass and I feel the same fate awaits Rudi鈥檚 suggestion.

Roger Knowles

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