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If your contract wording is ambiguous, when can you take into account deleted clauses? ...

Sweett Group plc was recently fined circa £2.3m for failing to prevent its UAE subsidiary from paying a bribe in the region of £680,000.00. Sweett’s UAE subsidiary made a series of inflated payments to a consultant in order to win a project management contract for building a hotel in Abu Dhabi...

The Joint Contracts Tribunal has confirmed some of the amendments that it is to include in its 2016 edition contracts...

If you are reading this construction law blog, no doubt you will be aware of the bank of three cases decided by Mr Justice Edwards-Stuart...

The Supreme Court recently gave judgment in the joined cases of Cavendish v Makdessi and ParkingEye v Beavis relating to penalty clauses...

Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires all commercial organisations with a global annual turnover of £36 million or above, who do any business in the UK, to publish a Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement each financial year...

Audit clauses are commonly included in a variety of contracts, such as contracts with local or central government bodies or those that are considered “costs plus” contracts...

Parties can easily fall foul of condition precedent clauses in relation to delay/extension of time claims preventing them from exercising certain rights under the contract...

In practice, we are increasingly being requested  to accept a full suite of construction documents on a certified CD rather than a typical certified copy of the paper documents...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has published “RICS Property Measurement, 1st edition”...

Previously the most commonly used procedure when procuring “straightforward” construction works and services (if there is such a thing!) was the “restricted procedure”...