Blog archive

The Court has confirmed that a contractor can, at least in principle, claim for and recover ‘thickened’ overheads resulting from employer culpable delay or disruption events...

Technology and Construction Court curtails “smash and grab” adjudications...

Stuart Pemble has had another article published in Estates Gazette which examines the Supreme Court's decision in Tiuta International Ltd (in liquidation) v De Villiers Surveyors Ltd...

The new procurement thresholds, which came into effect on 1 January 2018 for contracts regulated by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 and the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016, have recently been published...

Concurrent delay occurs when two or more events happen at the same time and both cause a project to be delayed...

In the first significant set of amendments for some time, FIDIC (the International Federation of Consulting Engineers) has announced that at the FIDIC Contract User’s Conference being held in London on 4-7 December 2017 they will release new forms of the following contracts...

A recent TCC decision suggests that the case law supporting so called “smash and grab” adjudications might have to be reassessed...

I had the pleasure of attending the NEC Users Group Annual Seminar yesterday for the launch of the new NEC4 suite of contracts...

The Industrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board) Order 2017 was made on 28 March 2017, and it came into force on 29 March 2017...

In a recent adjudication enforcement case, the Technology and Construction Court looked at the rules around assignment of contracts...

The JCT has confirmed that the following 2016 forms of contract can now be pre-ordered for dispatch on the 30 March 2017...

Developers (in fact, all construction clients) should carefully review and consider ownership and/or licensing of copyright when using design material...