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NewsMace launches in-house recruitment consultant
Business aims to fill 600 internal vacancies over next year while providing recruitment service to rivals
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Sharewatch: Amec’s chasing Amey
So it looks like Amec is hell-bent on abandoning the construction sector.
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NewsGalliford Try aims to double house sales in three years
Company plans to sell 1250 homes and abandon the luxury market, while posting £22.7m pre-tax profit
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Profit jumps to £23.5m at Miller Group
Private housebuilder and property company Miller Group more than doubled its profit in the first half of the year.
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Urban Splash’s £6.3m profit
Urban Splash, the property developer, increased its profit 52% in the 16 months ending 31 March.
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Mowlem’s results dented by £12m Australian loss
Contractor Mowlem’s interim results, announced last week, were overshadowed by a £12m charge for delays on projects in Australia.
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CommentIn defence of Peter
A message to letter-writers and sub-editors: we’re lucky to have Peter Lobban as head of the CITB, and his remuneration package reflects this fact
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NewsDavid Curry
Booming property prices mean more households are levied for inheritance tax, but proposals to reform the rate of taxation are merely tinkering – they don’t resolve the underlying issues
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CommentHolyrood: The reckoning
Even after the acres of column inches and the yards of screeching headlines dedicated to the creation of the Scottish parliament building, the Fraser report still manages to add another degree of chill.
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CommentDown to brass tacks
Everybody knows court cases are horribly expensive, but then so are ‘cheaper’ methods such as adjudication and mediation. So here’s a way to save money
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Comment£70k a pop
Enforcing an adjudication can be a damned expensive business, especially when there’s a proce - as one unfortunate subcontractor found out
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Natural justice, common sense
Tony Bingham’s discussion of McAlpine vs Transco, which concerned the introduction of new material in the course of an adjudication, missed a bit out
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Come on, admit it …
If you enter into ‘without prejudice’ negotiations before a trial, can you subsequently produce them in court when it comes to deciding costs?
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CABE convinced
Your coverage of the CABE review of Birmingham’s new PFI hospital (27 August, page 13) is a distortion of the tone of its report.
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Wriggling-out petitions
I read Nick Lane’s article “Don’t fall for Redmond’s wind-up” (3 September, page 52) with great interest and learned a lot from his hints to main contractors on how to avoid the consequences of receiving a statutory demand or winding-up petition.