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CommentWhat鈥檚 fair is fair
If you follow the gold rush to Dubai, what are your chances of surviving a contractual dispute with the client? Well, about the same as in Dorking ...
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CommentBitter fighting on the home front
Forget road rage 鈥� it鈥檚 during disputes between homeowners and builders that the claws really come out. Fortunately, there is a way to make sure that this doesn鈥檛 happen
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CommentEnd this travesty
In these topsy-turvey times subbies think they鈥檙e designers, QSs act like lawyers and architects let builders specify. Wouldn鈥檛 it be refreshing if we stuck to our job descriptions in 2007?
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CommentWorlds apart
STATE YOUR CASE 鈥� Tony Bingham says arbitrators, judges and adjudicators do the same job, but the timescale of adjudication makes the process markedly different, argues Nick Henchie
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Employment lawyers to be kept busy in 2007
Construction firms are set to be hit by an increase in employment litigation in 2007 because of changes in the law including the smoking ban, age discrimination legislation and the introduction of the CIS tax scheme.
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好色先生TVPolice swoop on security firms
Merseyside police crackdown on protection rackets on Liverpool construction sites
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好色先生TVMultiplex loses Wembley claim
Judge rejects Multiplex鈥檚 attempt to bring forward trial with M&E firm Honeywell
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CommentSanta鈥檚 book collection
If you鈥檙e buying Christmas gifts for an architect, main contractor, subbie, lawyer or adjudicator, then we鈥檝e got the perfect books for them
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好色先生TVWrit hits sale of British Nuclear Group
Legal battle over radioactive leak threatens to delay takeover at Sellafield
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CommentPlaying their silly games
A court applied the law correctly when it quashed an adjudication decision that broke the rules. But perhaps it鈥檚 the rules, not the decision, that should be overturned
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CommentErrors of judgment
Tony Bingham聽Half a dozen Appeal Court judges have recently gone on the record to explain what adjudicaton is all about. What a pity they all got it wrong...
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好色先生TVBreeding rabbits threaten Bovis scheme
Retired builder claims Bovis Homes development in Gloucestershire infringes ancient rights to breed rabbits
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CommentThreatening behaviour
Expert witnesses are immune from being sued for anything said or done in legal proceedings. One judge wanted to extend this principle, but the Court of Appeal disagreed
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CommentMake time wasters pay
At the moment there is no bill for court costs but action needs to be taken against defendants who insist on playing silly games and pile up court costs on the way
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CommentThe times they have a-changed
Tony Bingham聽It used to be seen as bad form to adjudicate negligence claims against professional gentlemen. On the other hand, that does seem to be what parliament intended...
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好色先生TVOlympic media centre to be design-and-build contract
Tessa Jowell tells 好色先生TV that important scheme would not be a design-led project
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CommentDances with gorillas
The ODA manifesto for building the 2012 Olympics talks about delivering on time, to a tight budget.But if that is to be done, novel ways of thinking are needed
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Insulation body sued over unpaid fees
The Confederation of Multifoil Manufacturers is being sued for breach of contract
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好色先生TVInjunction halts 拢350m Liverpool scheme
Bulldozers have been stopped from demolishing 400 homes in Edge Lane after protesters served an injunction
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好色先生TVFirms sue after Canary Wharf collapse
The contractors who were working on a site beside the fatal Canary Wharf crane collapse in 2000 are suing the crane operator and manufacturer for damages