All Legal articles – Page 80
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CommentAmended standard forms: Just say no
‘Amended’ standard forms are a cunning ruse that use pages and pages of modifications to pile risk onto subbies. But why do they agree to sign them?
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NewsSurveyor jailed after double life as graffiti vandal
A building surveyor has been jailed for 3½ years after being convicted of spray painting graffiti on an ‘industrial scale’
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CommentJV agreements: Common provisions
Five of the most important provisions in a joint venture agreement
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CommentBahrain: Construction opportunities in the ‘land of the two seas’
Bahrain is a pure and sacred place known as “the Pearl of the Arabian Gulf” – and a place with an increasing number of opportunities for UK construction
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NewsSellafield fined £700k for dumping radioactive waste
Firm pleaded guilty to seven counts of sending irradiated waste to a landfill site
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CommentEasements: What's yours is theirs
How easements - rights that people who don’t own the land can exercise on it - can hold up a development
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CommentLimitation periods and adjudication
The idea of adjudication is that it has no bearing on any subsequent litigation or arbitration, but in this case a clever argument tried to get around that principle
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NewsMay Gurney shareholders approve Kier takeover
May Gurney shareholder overwhelmingly approve Kier’s £221m proposed takeover
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NewsTim Yeo steps aside as committee chair
Tim Yeo steps aside from role as chair of energy and climate change committee while alleged lobbying breaches are investigated
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CommentNo crime and punishment
Contracting authorities can ban bidders from their tenders for certain crimes and also for non-criminal acts that amount to ‘grave misconduct’
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NewsFire breaks out at Brookfield's Glasgow Hospital
A fire broke out at Brookfield Multiplex’s Southern General Hospital site in Glasgow
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NewsYeo caught in lobbying sting
But chair of energy and climate change committee denies wrong doing
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CommentKnowing who you're in contract with
Problems with a retaining wall led to a dispute for damages. But who had the engineer signed a contract with - a business or an individual?
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CommentMAC clauses: Phantom menace
Material Adverse Change clauses are often included in commercial contracts but rarely enforced. Developers need to be aware of what can happen when they are, as a recent case has shown
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NewsLewis' Building contractor set to go bust
Merepark Construction faces liquidation after bank ceases payments on redevelopment of iconic Lewis’ Building
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NewsCouncils could lose planning powers
Government publishes regulations that could see councils that block development have their planning powers removed
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NewsFour immigration arrests at London Bridge station job
Border Agency arrests workers after enforcement visit to London Bridge site
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NewsWatchdog clears Kier's May Gurney takeover
Office for Fair Trading decides not to refer Kier’s proposed £221m acquisition of May Gurney to Competition Commission
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NewsUnion launches blacklist High Court action
Contractors including Carillion, Sir Robert McAlpine and Kier targeted in legal action lodged by the GMB on behalf of construction workers
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CommentRepudiatory breach of contract: Once more unto the breach
A repudiatory breach by the other side allows you to terminate a contract. But you will need to be sure it is such a breach if you don’t want the courts to put you right