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NewsBalfour Beatty's 拢1.4m award upheld after legal wrangle with Shepherd
Mr Justice Akenhead enforces adjudicator's decision, despite criticizing it for poor grammar and 鈥渦nconventional sentence structure鈥�
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CommentGaps in the framework
If you鈥檝e got a framework, a lot of contractual stuff is written into it. But there are still vital clauses that have to be agreed on the jobs themselves 鈥� so what happens if they aren鈥檛?
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CommentJCT homeowner contract: Get the picture?
The JCT鈥檚 contract for home extenders is a very useful document, not least because it turns a lot of those complicated words into drawings we can all understand
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NewsExperts say gem of Tanzania is "worthless"
2kg ruby named as asset by Wrekin construction is worth "about 拢100"
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NewsSix recruitment agencies fined 拢39m for price-fixing
OFT gives two firms immunity for providing information on cartel guilty of collective boycotting and fixing fee rates
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NewsHundreds of tower blocks not fire checked
BBC investigation after Lakanal House tragedy reveals councils committing criminal offence of failing to carry out fire risk assessments
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NewsMabey & Johnson guilty of overseas corruption
Bridge contractor pleads guilty to charges of corruption in Jamaica, Ghana and Iraq
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CommentTake the fifth: Liability for design mistakes
If you鈥檙e an architect, and you suddenly realise that you鈥檝e made a mistake, do you have a duty to tell your client about it? Well, that all depends
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CommentSo crazy it might be true
We鈥檙e so conditioned to looking at the world in a particular way we stop thinking about it. But what if it is, in fact, quite wrong? And what could prompt us to realise it is?
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NewsOFT: councils can sue guilty contractors
Watchdog says legal action and blacklisting would be 'understandable'
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NewsClients set to blacklist cover-pricing contractors
拢1.2bn consortium could drop OFT firms from deals as councils plan compensation claims
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NewsLocals launch Wigan BSF legal challenge
Opponents to new 'super school' scheme want land to be ringfenced for community use
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NewsIs it still cover pricing without the phone call?
The OFT has outlawed cover pricing, but that won鈥檛 stop firms putting in high bids so they lose contracts they can鈥檛 cope with
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NewsOFT: 'Councils are free to sue'
Director in charge of competition body's bid-rigging inquiry says local authorities should feel free to take legal action against guilty firms
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NewsDurkan vows to fight OFT over subdivision's 拢3.1m fine
Contractor disputes liability for cover-pricing at Concentra, which it sold off in 2007
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NewsOFT says six firms paid or received compensation payments
Fines imposed on Bowmer and Kirkland, Durkan, Herbert Baggaley, Mansell, Thomas Fish and Wildgoose Construction
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NewsWillmott Dixon may appeal against 拢4.5m OFT fine
Contractor will 'carefully consider' details of decision over cover pricing and grounds for appeal
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NewsGalliford Try set to appeal against OFT fine
Contractor says it did not gain financially from practice of cover pricing
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NewsKier suffers 拢18m OFT fine
Contractor slapped with largest bid rigging fine while nine more are hit by penalties of over 拢5m
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NewsBid rigging firms hit by massive OFT fines
Contractors found guilty of cover pricing ordered to pay severe fines totalling 拢130m