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The cost of copyright infringement
Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) exists to enforce and protect the exclusive right to play in public, and to authorise the playing in public of, copyrighted sound recordings that have been issued to the public. Mr Reader was part of a partnership that owned a club in Brighton. In 1999, ...
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NewsBumper entry for Little Britain
Only 50 places remain for the Little Britain Challenge Cup after 200 teams entered the regatta in six days.
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Coventry City may sue Laing ORourke over late stadium
Football club considers legal action after contractor admits £113m Ricoh Arena will be too late for season openers.
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Warings denies it is up for sale despite PWC document
Portsmouth contractor and Bristol firm Midas Group investigate mystery list of assets on headed paper.
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Local lowdown: Midlands
Hays Construction & Property's Robert Smith reports on the Midlands job boom
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FeaturesOpen-air surgery
Hopkins Architects’ design for a London hospital is a vivid demonstration of how design and healthcare can be combined to make a healing environment.
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NewsPringle puts ‘smart’ PFI at top of RIBA agenda
Jack Pringle this week put PFI at the top of the RIBA’s agenda before taking up his presidency in September
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Public sector construction output plummets 15%
Industry hopes that figure for non-housing public sector work in first quarter of this year is an ‘aberration’
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McAlpine lands £50m deal at four major BAA airports
Contractor Alfred McAlpine has won a £50m maintenance contract at four of BAA’s seven UK airports.
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Hyder’s profit leaps 81%
Engineer consultant Hyder Consulting this week revealed an 81% hike in pre-tax profit, despite reduced margins on water work in the UK.
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CommentWatching their own backs
Designers have been terrified into assuming responsibility for site safety – so much so that they now have to spend more time saving themselves than the workers
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ODPM set to rethink housing targets in the South-east
Opinion polls indicate that most householders in the region reject higher building levels over the next 20 years
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FeaturesConstruction: no place for women!
You’d think the industry would have moved into the 21st century by now, but when it comes to recruiting women it seems more like a 1950s Harry Enfield spoof. So does the industry not want women or is it they who aren’t interested?
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CommentIt’s down to the developer
A half-baked rethink of the law is unlikely to increase project safety. Placing the burden of responsibility at clients’ doorsteps is a much more effective solution
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CommentThe Dickens of a case
Mr Bumble had a point when he said the ‘law is a ass’ – as was borne out recently by a High Court battle that could have been settled with a phone call
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How to sing like a canary
The Office of Fair Trading is putting firms who operate cartels in a dilemma: do they keep shtoom and hope nobody finds out – or blow the whistle first?
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CommentGo back to square one
The law dealing with negligence and defective buildings is a mess, and every time the courts look at it, they make things worse. We need to start again …