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NewsFormer Balfour Beatty employee loses unfair dismissal claim
Project manager Alan Dransfield was seeking 拢300,000 in lost earnings, claiming he was sacked for raising safety concerns
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NewsBAM Nuttall to repair Hochtief tunnel
Contractor to carry out 拢20m of work on structure that collapsed eight months after official opening
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CommentThe big law society
Ann Minogue聽The more disputes are settled in adjudication, the more likely it is that areas outside our industry will have a bearing on how construction law develops
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Hamish Lal: Bare realities
Hamish Lal聽The final part of our series on the nuclear decommissioning sector looks at the kind of risks the industry is grappling with today 鈥� including that the money will run out
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CommentCourt isn鈥檛 all it鈥檚 cracked up to be
The property end of building is even more disputatious than the contruction end. It needs to find a better way to resolve disputes 鈥� so why not adopt adjudication?
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NewsCandy: Rogers was 'precious' about Chelsea design
CPC boss describes how architect refused to make changes requested by the London mayor
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Christian Candy gives evidence in Chelsea Barracks case
Counsel for CPC says Qatari Diar had "no lawful justification" for withdrawing planning application
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Rok 黑洞社区 vs Celtic Composting Systems
Our Fenwick Elliott expert discusses a dispute over the 'slip rule'
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Expert determination: A short cut through a swamp
Plumping for expert determination to resolve a dispute may sound like a quick, cheap, hassle-free alternative to adjudication or litigation. But it ain鈥檛 necessarily so
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All things considered
Adjudicators have it drummed into them that they should decide the dispute in the notice of adjudication. Here鈥檚 a case that shows there is some room for flexibility
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Crowley Civil Engineers vs Rushmoor council: Claiming a contribution
Out Fenwick Elliott expert describes a dispute over an open space in Hampshire
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CommentThis one鈥檚 on you
Tony Bingham聽Tolent clauses, which make the party that refers an adjudication pay all the legal costs, are to be outlawed by the Construction Act 鈥� but a judge has just got there first
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Judges unleashed
Simon Tolson聽Unlike the restrained and remote judges of the past, many now snap at the ankles of the advocates to ensure cases proceed in the way they should
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Legal threat to surveyors drives down house prices
Housebuilders say disputes over pre-recession valuations are slowing recovery
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Running out of common sense
Shy Jackson聽One area where the judges are struggling to make up their minds is the 鈥榳ithout prejudice鈥� rule. Here鈥檚 a rundown of the arguments, and the spats, among our learned friends
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CommentYour next assignment
James Duckworth and Charles Jakeman聽Transferring construction agreement benefits between parties requires care and attention, especially when dealing with the 鈥榥o loss鈥� defence
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The reckoning
Fiona Gill and Mark Roach聽So what did the Labour party do for (or to) construction during the past 13 years? And what will happen if the Conservatives take over?
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CommentA pain in the NEC
Disputes on NEC projects are on the rise, so if you don鈥檛 want to find yourself in a bind, here are some points to be aware of when using this contract
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Nuclear contracts: Ending in tiers
The second of our three-part series on the nuclear decommissioning sector looks at the target-cost clauses of tier two contracts 鈥� their benefits and pitfalls
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NewsVinci: Luton council broke tender rules
Vinci has alleged that Luton council breached tender rules in the latest chapter of the row over the town鈥檚 拢52m guided busway scheme