All Legal articles – Page 58
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Green light for KPF's 170m 'Jenga' tower
Joint developers McLaren Property and Citygrove win planning for tower in Vauxhall
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T Clarke suffers sharp drop in profit after legal claim
Costs of legal dispute hit the building services firm as revenue also falls
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The Freedom of Information minefield
Parties are using the Freedom of Information Act to strengthen their positions, so be aware when working with a public body that it may have to disclose information you’d rather it didn’t
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Appeal against £16bn Hinkley Point plant rejected
The Irish equivalent of the National Trust has lost its legal battle against the government’s decision to grant planning permission to the project
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Sharing out the risks
BIM is supposed to help eliminate design risk but the different parties on a project must make sure that their responsibilities and liabilities are clearly defined
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Keeping the cash flowing
The fair payment charter is clearly going to need some teeth and enforcement powers but who the teeth will belong to and what the enforcement measures will look like remain to be seen
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Interserve's legal challenge to £2.8bn defence contracts dropped
Contractor’s legal challenge to the award of £2.8bn in defence work to Carillion and Amey dropped
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Industrial action feared as electricians reject pay deal
Union could hold ballot on industrial action after 91% of workers reject a 5% two-year pay deal
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Carillion merger with Balfour Beatty ‘not a takeover’
Balfour Beatty source says firm would not be considering a deal if it meant ceding control to Carillion
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Set-off: Know the setbacks
Set-off is a term that is regularly heard in the construction industry, but does everyone know exactly what it means?
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Caught in the Act
Your brilliant idea to develop part of an existing building could easily be scuppered by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 - so best to get advice early
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Brussels set to demand 30% energy efficiency increase
European Commission outlines plans to increase energy efficiency in buildings by 2030
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Balfour Beatty and Carillion in merger talks
Balfour Beatty and Carillion have announced that they are in talks about a possible merger
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Playing by the rules
The ‘Plebgate’ affair may not have been very edifying but it did give the courts the opportunity to issue guidelines on Civil Procedure Rule 3.9 - on granting relief from court sanctions
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Books for the beach
It’s summer and you’ll be wanting to pack some reading matter for the hols. Well, Construction Contract Variations will have you on the edge of your lilo
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F+G pays out £3.3m in Manchester tower battle
Firm pays out to settle a £9.9m High Court dispute over alleged failings on an abandoned tower project in Manchester
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Contractor makes £200m claim after failed nuclear bid
Energy Solutions files for damages after losing £7bn decommissioning job to Babcock-led consortium
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RLB slams £750m framework award as ‘complete shambles’
Pressure mounts on government over consultants’ framework as Turner Townsend lodges legal challenge
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Blacklist firms to clarify 'misleading' letter to MPs
Eight firms that set up blacklist compensation scheme to write to MPs to clarify that scheme was set up without unions backing
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Go ahead for Canary Wharf's massive Wood Wharf scheme
Tower Hamlets gives outline permission to 30 new buildings in London’s Docklands, including over 3,000 homes