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The New Year is a good time to remind ourselves of what happens when there is delay to the Completion Date under JCT 2011. It of course depends on who is responsible for the delay...

As contracts and professional appointments, sent out for signature last year, start to make their return to the office we find ourselves making sure, when dating the documents, that we date them 2012 and not 2011!..

Given the flexibility in the payment provisions in the amended Construction Act, it will be important to keep an eye over the next few months on how (and if) default payment notices are used...

Magistrates have fined Lincoln University £10,000 and ordered it to pay costs of £12,759, following the discovery of asbestos in four University buildings...

The following adjudication procedure rules (which parties can choose to use instead of the Scheme for Construction Contracts) have been updated to bring them in line with the recent amendments to the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996...

The new Construction Act introduces the concept of a specified person who can serve both a payment notice or a pay less notice on behalf of the payer...

Two months ago the Association for Consultancy and Engineering and the Civil Engineering Contractors Association, published a brand new suite of ICC conditions- based on the old ICE Conditions used previously for engineering projects such as earthworks or roadworks...

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NEC still hasn't published amendments to its contracts to account for the changes to the Construction Act.  In fact, it hasn't even given us a date for the changes to be published...

First tier PFI construction sub-contracts are excluded from the Construction Act’s changes to the pay-when-certified provisions...

Regarding Third Party Rights Schedules, although they look much better (i.e. quicker, cheaper and more environmentally friendly) than the traditional collateral warranty route, there are some issues for third party beneficiaries to be watch out for...

Its amazing how often we are finding clients meaning one thing but recording another? It seems that there is a disconnect between parties intentions and the recording of them...