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A recent case has highlighted the responsibility of architects to ensure their brief and any design development or changes are in writing...

On 1 March 2019 NEC issued a set of amendments to its NEC4 suite of contracts. There are quite a few...

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Wells v Devani [2019] UKSC 4, 2019 WL 00570778 is not specifically about construction law, but is nevertheless worthy of attention...

The slip rule in adjudications is well established. Indeed, it has been enshrined in statute through section 108(3A) of the Construction Act 1996 (as amended) and paragraph 22A of the Scheme for Construction Contracts 1998 (as amended) (“the Scheme”)...

Managing Service Delivery: Monitoring performance and the Service Level Agreement (SLA) Service contracts, such as hard facilities management agreements, often include: a service specification, a service level agreement and a performance management regime...

Lawyers often gloss over technical construction documents: ‘too techie for us’, they say...

The Disclosure Pilot (“DP”) commenced on 1 January 2019 in the Business and Property Courts and will run for a period of two years...

On projects using a special purpose vehicle (“SPV”), the SPV is keen to ensure that it does not face claims or obligations that it cannot, in turn, seek from the contracting authority (“Authority”)...

Following Stuart Thompson’s recent blog about GPP Big Field LLP v Solar EPC Solutions SL (“GPP”) and in particular whether liquidated damages continue to accrue following termination up to completion, we look at the decision made on whether or not the liquidated damages provisions were enforceable...

When calculating time in England and Wales under the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act (as amended) (“the Act”) this Christmas...

Estates Gazette has recently published my article on a public falling-out between two of our greatest judges on the most important contract law question of them all...

Do liquidated damages continue to accrue after a construction contract has been terminated?..