Recent building safety cases: the courts are getting stuck in

Sarah Alexander of Dentons UK and Middle East LLP reviews recent court decisions relating to the growing number of building safety related cases since the Building Safety Act 2022 came into force. Developers face prosecution for failing to comply with improvement notice deadlines, one case confirms.

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Serial Adjudication in 2023: some like it hot

Karen Gough of 39 Essex Chambers analyses why after over 25 years of the adjudication regime the courts are still kept busy with issues arising from serial adjudications. Claiming parties like them, but they are the bane of adjudicators and judges she says.

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Enhanced status helps keep the Irish adjudication bar high

Stephen McKenna and Nouman Qadir of Quigg Golden analyse two recent decisions in Irish construction law handed down by the High Court. Adjudicator’s decisions have ‘enhanced status’ in the Irish courts compared to the UK, they point out, and the courts have a track record of supporting the intentions of the legislation.

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Party walls – we are all affected

Dr Laura Lintott, Visiting Fellow at King’s College London and Supervisor for undergraduates in land and private law at the University of Cambridge, writes in her capacity as a recent PhD graduate from the University of Cambridge on the topic of her thesis: Party Wall Disputes: Legal Coherence and Dispute Management.

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Insurance and Consequential Loss

Insurance expert John D Wright of JD Risk Associates examines how insurers regard claims for consequential loss. Claims for economic loss give rise to many disputes, he warns.

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Time to mandate adjudication pupillage?

Caroline McDermott of Turner & Townsend and Kirsti Olson of Dentons UK and Middle East LLP suggest pupillage as one way to increase the supply of adjudicators.

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New and proposed legislation: State of play table 284

This table, prepared by Alignment Media, provides a regularly amended guide to new and proposed legislation that will affect the construction industry. In addition to EU Directives and UK legislation, the table includes notes highlighting discussion papers issued by both government and non-government organisations, and commentary on the latest developments.

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Legal terms explained: Value Engineering

In a construction context, value engineering usually refers to the process of reducing the cost of a project through changes to the method and type of construction or specification, without making major reductions in scope or compromising on functionality or quality.

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Biggest ever water investment planned

Water companies in England and Wales have submitted plans for what is said to be the largest ever investment in the sector to the regulator Ofwat.

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Whistleblowers allege Parliament was misled over HS2 costs

HS2 has become embroiled in allegations by whistleblowers that the company deliberately covered up its escalating costs to prevent government from cancelling the project.

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