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Implementing the Building Safety Act in Wales

2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00By Helen Johnson and Katie Rider

Helen Johnson and Katie Rider on how the Building Safety Act applies differently for Welsh buildings

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A deal with too many moth holes

2025-03-17T06:00:00+00:00By Tony Bingham

A vendor who fails to answer the pre-contract questionnaire honestly can find the whole house sale reversed

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How landmark building safety court rulings could clarify the law on liability

2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00By Theresa Mohammed

Landmark rulings on defects, remediation and building safety could clarify the law around liability and remedy

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The government’s Remediation Action Plan explained

2025-02-14T07:00:00+00:00By Catherine Gelder and Frances Gordon-Weeks

Catherine Gelder and Frances Gordon-Weeks on the government’s plan to resolve building safety delays

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Let’s sort out the payment rules

2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00By Tony Bingham

The recent ruling in Placefirst vs CAR highlights the ongoing confusion around the payment and pay-less rules

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It’s time to shake up adjudication

2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00By Tony Bingham

Poor decisions, low competence, bias – adjudication has got itself into a mess. So, what’s to be done? Tony Bingham has the answers

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Construction law in 2025: what can we expect in the year ahead?

2025-01-24T07:00:00+00:00By Sheena Sood

Sheena Sood sets out what to expect in the year ahead for construction law, including a variety of regulatory changes

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Legal abroad: How Saudi Arabia’s revised arbitration rules will help mega-projects

2025-01-09T05:00:00+00:00By Raid Abu-Manneh, Dr Meshal Al Akeel, Gerard Moore and Andrew Sarraf

The SCCA Rules 2023 will ensure a more transparent and internationally compliant legal process, smoothing the way on Saudi’s increasing mega-projects

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Sexual harassment at work: employers’ new duties

2025-01-02T07:00:00+00:00By Ashley Scriven

Ashley Scriven explains changes in the employer’s duty to protect employees from sexual harassment

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Looking back at the legal year: 2024 in construction law

2024-12-23T06:00:00+00:00By Rupert Choat

In 2024 fire safety dominated the legal space, while liability caps and conditions precedent also produced a glut of cases

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Simon Tolson to stand down as Fenwick Elliott senior partner

2024-06-13T09:52:00+01:00By Carl Brown

Prominent lawyer steps back after 23 years at the helm

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Trio of partners appointed by construction law firm Fenwick Elliott

2023-09-11T10:39:00+01:00

Senior associates promoted in London and Dubai

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SNC-Lavalin arm pleads guilty to Libya fraud

2019-12-20T06:00:00+00:00By Jordan Marshall

Subsidiary of Canadian firm which owns Atkins fined more than £160m

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Number of High Court disputes jumps again

2019-12-06T06:00:00+00:00By Tom Lowe

Carillion collapse blamed as annual figure heads towards 400 mark

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Camden council makes £130m High Court claim against tower block contractors

2019-12-02T06:00:00+00:00By Alice Lorenzato-Lloyd

Legal action centres on Chalcots Estate evacuation in June 2017

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Willmott Dixon and Hackney row over defects on resi block

2019-09-04T05:00:00+01:00By Hamish Champ

Contractor’s housing arm Willmott Partnership Homes disputes ‘many’ of council’s claims

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Second law firm begins action over Lendlease share fall

2019-08-13T05:00:00+01:00By Dave Rogers and Jordan Marshall

Price plunge triggered by woes at engineering business

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HS2 faces crunch ruling on Old Oak Common start date

2019-07-18T05:00:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall

Railway will hear in September whether challenge by Bechtel will stop it awarding job to Balfour Beatty team

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Heathrow beats challenge against third runway

2019-05-01T11:47:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall

Twenty-one of the 26 claims were deemed to be unarguable

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HS2 procurement blunders have cost us £100m, Bechtel says

2019-04-25T05:00:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall1 comments

US giant goes to court after £1.1bn Old Oak station job awarded to Balfour Beatty team

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The coronavirus crisis: What does it all mean?

2020-03-18T06:00:00+00:00By Dave Rogers, Yolande Barnes and Simon Tolson

The implications of covid-19 for construction, housing and legal

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Brexit and construction law: Changing times

2017-06-23T06:00:00+01:00By Al Watson, Jill Carey and Clare Harman-Clark

One year on from the EU referendum, nobody knows how a post-Brexit world will look

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Interview: Richard Saxon

2016-08-04T06:00:00+01:00By Francis Ho

Richard Saxon, chair of the Joint Contracts Tribunal, speaks to Building legal columnist Francis Ho about new kinds of contracts, the competition, and where he thinks the industry is heading

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Crossing the line

2015-08-28T07:00:00+01:00By Roxane McMeeken

With the Calais crisis still a hot media topic, the government is on the warpath against construction companies employing illegal workers. But is the sector doing enough to make sure it doesn’t get caught out?

Procurement on trial

Procurement on trial

2014-08-22T06:00:00+01:00By Joey Gardiner1 comments

Construction firms are increasingly emboldened to take the government to court over its procurement decisions, but who’s to blame?

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Museum of Liverpool: Nightmare at the museum

2013-08-08T00:00:00+01:00By Joey Gardiner

The £72m Museum of Liverpool may have opened in 2011, but problems with the design and build mean parts of the iconic building are still inaccessible to the public. Last week’s £1.13m court judgment highlights the dangers for small consultants on big projects

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Insurance special report: BIM

2012-10-26T00:00:00+01:00By Roxane McMeeken

The rise of collaboration software has created a lot of questions for insurers - not least how to divide up and assign blame if anything goes wrong

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Costly legal disputes: Everyone's a loser

2012-06-15T00:00:00+01:00By Emily Wright

The amount spent on legal disputes has jumped by a third in the UK over the past year. Why are construction firms still so keen to spend on litigation?

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Sparks fly: The row over electricians' wage agreements

2012-01-04T10:30:00+00:00By Iain Withers

The decision of seven major M&E contractors to break away from the 40-year-old JIB wage agreement was prompted by an ‘urgent need to modernise’ but has already led to angry clashes between workers and police. Building reports on a row that threatens to become the sector’s biggest industrial relations dispute ...

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Hackney Empire vs Aviva Insurance: The Empire strikes back

2011-07-15T00:00:00+01:00By Iain Withers

This is the tale of a theatre project, backed by Lord Sugar, that landed its client with a £3.2m headache. Now eight years on there’s a legal battle over a bond between the insurer and the theatre owner

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