Blog archive

On 1 October 2019 at 12.15 in our Birmingham office - 78-84 Colmore Row, partners Stuart Pemble, Martino Giaquinto,and Neil Frankland will be giving a seminar on "An update on developments in construction contracts"...

The Technology and Construction Court has recently considered whether a contract becomes binding and concluded if the Employer has not signed it (Anchor 2020 Limited v Midas Construction Limited [2019] EWHC 435)...

Some supplies of construction services (and related goods) made on or after 1 October 2019 will have to comply with a new VAT reverse charge...

Adjudication is meant to provide a speedier and cheaper means of resolving construction disputes and to assist in keeping cash flowing during a construction project. It can work well in respect of easily quantifiable disputes...

The Government has launched a public consultation on its plans to create a part to the building regulations requiring new buildings to be electric vehicle (EV) ready...

Grove V S&T, blogged on by me on in relation to the first instance decision in respect of the “Smash and Grab” element and by Alex Pike in relation to liquidated damages and again by me in relation to the Court of Appeal decision in respect of liquidated damages is being appealed to the Supreme Court...

For some time the industry has been concerned about the level of fees on low value disputes. To address this, TeCSA has recently launched a pilot of its Low Value Disputes (LVD) Adjudication Service...

Build UK, which supports the abolition of retentions in construction contracts, has developed a roadmap to achieve zero retentions by 2023...

Following on from my blog on the Government’s independent review of fire safety following Grenfell Tower...

Reading the recent case of Swansea Stadium Management Company Ltd v City & Council of Swansea and Another [2019] EWHC 989 reminded me of how the language of JCT contracts has changed over the years, sometimes quite subtlety...

In April 2019 the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 were amended to include a new regulation 113A and 113B, implementing the recent EU directive on electronic invoicing...

Estates Gazette has recently published my article on the recent Court of Appeal judgement in Triple Point Technology v PTT on whether liquidated damages apply when the contractor never achieves completion...