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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”...

JCT 2011 unamended contracts contain a provision that the Final Certificate is conclusive on a number of issues...

With two stage tendering, popular JCT’s PCSA 2011 may be presented to you for signature at the end of the first stage...

Our winter 2014 edition of building blocks was published on 19 December 2014...

I recently had the pleasure of reviewing the JCT Consultancy Agreement (Public Sector)  2011 form. I am not aware of there being a private sector version...

The case of Eurocom Ltd v Siemens [2014] EWHC 3710 which was reported last week is a salutary lesson in how not to complete a form for the appointment of an adjudicator...

A client of mine recently asked me for advice on a consultant’s appointment that it wished to use...