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On 10 November 2020, the Cabinet Office published guidance on public sector procurement from 1 January 2021...

Clause 10 of MF/1 deals with the service of notices. The clause allows service by post, fax or email...

NEC has published a second set of amendments to the NEC4 June 2017 edition contracts...

This is a tale of a family-run housing development scheme gone horribly wrong...

In JRT Developments Ltd v TW Dixon (Developments) Ltd, the TCC has granted the defendant a stay execution of a sum awarded in a smash and grab adjudication until final determination of the defendant’s claim...

The Cabinet Office has launched a new model for evaluating social value in government contracts in a new Procurement Policy Note PPN06/20– taking account of social value in the award of central government contracts...

In the context of a cladding claim a recent the TCC decision is another case which supports the proposition that the discovery (or significant suspicion) of deliberately concealed information can effectively reset the limitation clock...

The Construction Leadership Council has issued Site Operating Procedures Version 6...

The Competence Steering Group (CSG) has released its final report called “Setting the Bar” with the aim of a competency based framework across the construction industry...

With construction methods evolving and moving away from the tradition of projects being constructed entirely (or largely) on site, what additional risks do the parties need to consider and how can these be conquered?..

As regular visitors to this blog will be aware the Supreme Court decided in Bresco Electrical Services Ltd v Michael J Lonsdale (Electrical) Ltd [2020] UKSC 25 that an insolvent party can adjudicate a dispute...

The Financial Conduction Authority brought a test case to assess whether or not a variety of insurance policy wording for non-damage business interruption cover provided cover due to Covid-19...