All Legal articles – Page 134
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NewsS G Hart vs the Smiths: Adjudication claims
Our Fenwick Elliott expert discusses whether it is possible to set off liquidates damages against a previous adjudication
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NewsArchitect tried to smother wife with pillow
Jurors at the Old Bailey hear how Clive Wille threatened to kill his wife after she asked for a divorce
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NewsTerrorism Act may stop worker protesting at power station
Scottish and Southern Energy is seeking an injunction arguing the picketing over worker's dismissal is a threat to UK energy supply
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NewsRogers may sue Qatari Diar over Chelsea barracks
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners could take legal action over £2m in unpaid fees against client that sacked it from controversial scheme
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NewsConstruction Bill amendment frees up PFI lending
Last-minute amendment as bill passed by Commons will reduce investment risk for PFI consortiums
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CommentAdjudication awards: Logical deductions
If a party loses an adjudication and is ordered to pay up, can it set this sum off against anything it thinks it is owed from a subsequent adjudication award?
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NewsJohn Doyle fined for worker falling from scaffolding
Contractor pleads guilty after worker falls six meters on Liverpool One development
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NewsHomebuyers forced to complete abandoned deals
Developers and builders seek legal action to enforce contracts ditched through lack of finance
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Comment
OFT special: The cost of a phone call
If you don’t want the job, just ask for too much money and you won’t get it. Nobody can touch you. Phone a friend for a cover price, though, and you’re liable for millions
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NewsTwo firms fined for exposing workers to asbestos
Noble Gift Packaging and A&T Roofing plead guilty to breaches leading to workers and public being exposed to deadly asbestos fibres
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NewsBalfour Beatty's £1.4m award upheld after legal wrangle with Shepherd
Mr Justice Akenhead enforces adjudicator's decision, despite criticizing it for poor grammar and “unconventional sentence structure”
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CommentGaps in the framework
If you’ve got a framework, a lot of contractual stuff is written into it. But there are still vital clauses that have to be agreed on the jobs themselves – so what happens if they aren’t?
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CommentJCT homeowner contract: Get the picture?
The JCT’s contract for home extenders is a very useful document, not least because it turns a lot of those complicated words into drawings we can all understand
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NewsExperts say gem of Tanzania is "worthless"
2kg ruby named as asset by Wrekin construction is worth "about £100"
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NewsSix recruitment agencies fined £39m for price-fixing
OFT gives two firms immunity for providing information on cartel guilty of collective boycotting and fixing fee rates
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NewsHundreds of tower blocks not fire checked
BBC investigation after Lakanal House tragedy reveals councils committing criminal offence of failing to carry out fire risk assessments
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NewsMabey & Johnson guilty of overseas corruption
Bridge contractor pleads guilty to charges of corruption in Jamaica, Ghana and Iraq
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CommentTake the fifth: Liability for design mistakes
If you’re an architect, and you suddenly realise that you’ve made a mistake, do you have a duty to tell your client about it? Well, that all depends
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CommentSo crazy it might be true
We’re so conditioned to looking at the world in a particular way we stop thinking about it. But what if it is, in fact, quite wrong? And what could prompt us to realise it is?
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NewsOFT: councils can sue guilty contractors
Watchdog says legal action and blacklisting would be 'understandable'