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The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) has published a practice note giving guidance on using building information modelling (BIM) in JCT contracts: “BIM and JCT Contracts”...

The Court of Appeal has given a very useful summary of the courts’ current view on what constitutes “practical completion” (if there is no definition in the contractual documents)...

In UTB LLC v Sheffield United Limited and others [2019] EWHC 914 (Ch), Sir Geoffrey Vos, Chancellor of the High Court, considered the effect of the Disclosure Pilot on transitional cases...

Estates Gazette has recently published my article on the enduring effect of the decision of Murphy v Brentwood in the assessment of whether a construction professional can owe a duty of care to enable the building owner to recover the cost of rectifying a defect in the building...

In the wake of Carillion’s collapse, employers of services and works are taking an increasingly active role in monitoring the financial position of their key suppliers...

The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019/560) were made on 13 March and published on 15 March 2019...

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...