Legal – Page 80
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NewsMcArdle collapse leaves creditors £5.3m out of pocket
Administrator finds funds to pay 61% of value of trade creditors’ bills, while around half the firm’s 155 staff have been made redundant
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CommentBuilding Act: A pier entrance can be deceptive
Hastings council’s decision to close part of the town pier due to fears over its structural integrity put the provisions of the Building Act 1984 to the test - with perhaps surprising results
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NewsSweett launches probe into bribery allegations
Firm denies knowledge of alleged historic incident involving employee in Morocco
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NewsLabour fires warning over land 'hoarding'
Labour is set to outline proposal to tackle land banking to boost housebuilding numbers, inlcuding fining developers
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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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NewsBuilding regulations to be integrated into BIM
Working group looks at ways to integrate regulations, planning and health and safety requirements into BIM models
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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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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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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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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