Legal views – Page 25
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Legal: Facing up to mental health
Employers slack on staff mental health may face disability discrimination claims
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Legal: a knotty problem
James Bessey explains that a  recent case showing nuisance can be caused by omission as well as action has implications for cladding fires
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Legal: Cyber Security: smart buildings
Paul Glass and Jill Hamilton of Taylor Wessing’s cyber security team consider the benefits and risks of internet-enabled technologyÂ
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Legal: A different kind of model approach
Daniel Garton and Ralph Goodchild on using system dynamics as evidence in delay and disruption claimsÂ
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Legal: operating under-covered
Steven Carey looks at problems in obtaining professional indemnity insurance for cladding-related work in the wake of the Grenfell fire
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Case in Focus: how low can you go?
Ted Lowery on a judgment that slated one side’s jaundiced approach to quantum evidenceÂ
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Time’s up on 100% time bars
Why do time bar provisions strike down all of a claim, not part of it? Standard forms should allow a less extreme option
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Computers take over the courtroom
Technology in the legal world has opened up a host of opportunities. Rebecca Shorter looks at new ways of making the most of digital evidence in construction cases and the risks to be aware of when there is such a vast amount of data at your fingertips
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Legal: How BIM can bring us safety
 Is BIM the hook on which to secure the golden thread of information that Hackitt says should run through every project?
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Case in focus: Getting it done properly
A ruling says two disputes on the same project must use different adjudicators
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A spanner in the works
The Pimlico Plumbers case highlights the rights of workers who fall between employee and self-employed contractor
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Legal: Counting the cost of change
Lindy Patterson looks at how valuing compensation events under NEC is affected by a retrospective change in scope
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Legal: Broken records can be expensive
Hannah Mycock-Overell explains how good record-keeping practices will help if disputes later arise
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Legal: A dangerous clause
Victoria Peckett considers whether termination-at-will clauses provide a get-out-of-jail-free card
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Legal: incentivising innovation
In the fifth part of our series on new technology, Andrew Keeley and Maeve Gantley consider whether construction contracts have a role to play in incentivising innovation
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Case in focus: Insolvency
Could the decision in a second adjudication be relied upon to defeat a petition to wind up an employer for failing to pay the sum awarded in an earlier adjudication?
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Legal: Taking the long view
Ian Yule looks at how the courts have interpreted clauses on good faith and co-operation in long-term maintenance contracts like PFI
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GDPR: The 12 step approach
Tony Bingham explains the ins and outs of GDPR compliance, and how to make sure you don’t fall foul of the new data rules
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Legal: Speaking doesn't make it so
A new and momentous Supreme Court ruling makes ‘NOM’ clauses banning oral modification far more effective
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Legal: The benefits of escrow
John Hughes D’Aeth explains the protections offered to main contractors by a different kind of model form – the City of London Law Society’s newly published escrow agreement