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Section 111 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (as amended) (“HGCRA”) provides that where a payer fails to issue a payment notice the sum applied for by the payee becomes the ‘notified sum’...

Question: Contracting authorities are required under Regulation 113 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (“PCR”) to make payments within 30 days of an invoice being regarded as “valid and undisputed” – but when exactly does this 30 day window begin...

Yes, apparently you do! The ECJ has just handed down a preliminary ruling on request of the Danish Supreme Court in Finn Frogne A/S v Rigspolitiet ved Center for Beredskabskommunikation Case C-549/14...

JCT has announced that the JCT Design and Build 2016 form of contract will be despatched to those that have pre-ordered, on 22 September 2016...

Last week the first of the 2016 crop of new JCT Contracts landed on our desks...

Rather than separately particularising each breach of contract and the loss claimed as a result, contractors often present rolled up ‘global claims’ for the composite loss that they have incurred as a result of various breaches of contract...

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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...