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Hard times ahead could lead to more insolvencies and disputes

Output from the construction sector is set to fall next year, according to new data, with legal professionals warning that squeezed profit margins could lead to more insolvencies and supply chain disputes. Forecasts from the Construction Products Association show that output overall is set to fall by 3.9% in 2023; a sharp downward revision from the -0.4% it predicted this summer.

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University seeks £14m in faulty brickwork lawsuit

Contractor Laing O’Rourke and architect John McAslan + Partners are involved in a dispute with the University of Manchester over allegedly defective brickwork cladding on three buildings at its campus south of the city centre.

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Contractor faces dispute over defects to printing facility

Buckingham Group is fighting a legal claim from a major newspaper publisher which blames the contractor for groundworks defects on the site of a printing works in Thurrock, Essex. The firm undertook the design and construction of the facility which completed a decade ago.

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Inaction on site safety results in fine for house builder

A string of health and safety failings on construction sites across north west England have landed building firm Mullberry Homes with a £116,666 fine. Investigations found issues with the company’s planning, management and monitoring of worker safety.

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Rail scheme boss calls for reassurance over spending

Government has been urged by the chief executive of Britain’s largest transport infrastructure project High Speed 2 to provide more certainty over its future support for the rail scheme. Mark Thurston told a committee of MPs this week that “uncertainty can be unsettling for the supply chain” who have a “huge amount of investment” in the project.

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Ruling on natural justice breach explored in latest CL

Critical importance of ‘natural justice’ to the fairness of the legal decision making process – as demonstrated by a recent Scottish court case – is emphasised by our Guest Editors in the latest printed edition of Construction Law which arrived with subscribers this week.

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MPs slam inaction on infrastructure climate resilience

Construction lawyers have backed a call for Government to ‘get a proper grip’ on the need to adapt critical national infrastructure for the effects of climate change, which is expected to bring increasingly extreme weather.

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Challenge remains likely as Thames crossing application resubmitted

National Highways has this week submitted its second application for a development consent order to build the Lower Thames Crossing between Essex and Kent. The company’s chief executive Nick Harris is confident the application addresses “myriad environmental and traffic concerns” but acknowledges that a future judicial review challenge is likely.

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Ruling made in PFI hospital dispute

A PFI project company has secured a significant High Court judgment against a building contractor in a dispute arising from defects in the design and construction of an oncology centre at Europe’s largest teaching hospital.

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Fresh legal challenge threatens major road scheme

National Highways’ plan to upgrade a portion of the A428 between Oxford and Cambridge has become the latest nationally significant infrastructure project to face a potential judicial review, after a legal challenge was launched by environmental campaigners.

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