Legal views – Page 25
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CommentLegal: Broken records can be expensive
Hannah Mycock-Overell explains how good record-keeping practices will help if disputes later arise
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CommentLegal: A dangerous clause
Victoria Peckett considers whether termination-at-will clauses provide a get-out-of-jail-free card
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CommentLegal: 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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CommentCase 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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CommentLegal: 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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CommentGDPR: 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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CommentLegal: 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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CommentLegal: 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
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CommentLegal: Time to take the pledge
Why not sign up for the use of early intervention and conflict avoidance methods to nip costly disputes in the bud?
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CommentLegal: Damages on account
Kieran Binnie explains how interim payment applications can be used to recover damages in advance
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CommentLegal: Cyber security: the new data rules
Andrew Wood of Taylor Wessing’s construction team explains why no one can afford to ignore the new data protection regulation rules that come into force today
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CommentLegal: Have you got it covered?
Subcontractors should beware of disqualifying themselves from being covered by the contractor’s project insurance
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CommentCase in Focus: Settling in the water
Had the parties to a shipbuilding contract achieved a binding settlement?
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CommentLegal: Careless talk can cost cases
Robert Akenhead highlights the dangers of a private conversation between one party in a case and the judge, arbitrator or adjudicator
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CommentLegal: Second time's a charm
Francis Ho concludes that the new edition of the CIC’s BIM Protocol effectively addresses the main concerns about its predecessor
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CommentNot what the doctor ordered
Tony Bingham argues that the adjudication system set out in the Construction Act has been warped into something way more legalistic
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CommentLegal: tunnel vision
Kirsti Olson and Sarah Alexander describe a case in which the court ruled that use of reasonable skill and care does not amount to a ‘get out of jail free’ card
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CommentThat's the spirit
A new survey on contracts reveals growing enthusiasm for collaboration and BIM technology is yet to be realised in practice
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CommentInterim payments: many happy returns?
Could an employer compromise the final account by making interim payments during the project?
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CommentConstruction projects: termination without tears
Stephanie Canham on a case that underlines the importance of seeking legal advice before initiating termination