Legal terms explained: Third party rights

Third party rights The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (CRTPA) was enacted to reform the legal rule of ‘privity of contract’ which says that, even if a contract is made with the purpose of conferring a benefit on someone who is not a party to it, that person (a third party) has no right to sue for breach of contract.

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News in Brief: May 2015

The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) has issued amendment sheets for its 2011 edition of JCT contracts, covering the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015), which are effective from 6 April 2015. The amendment sheets, available to download in PDF format, can be accessed at www.jctltd.co.uk/cdm-amendmentsheets.aspx

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Network Rail improves payment times

Network Rail has speeded up payment times and standardised its pre-qualification questionnaire as a result of the change in its classification as a public sector body in September last year, Commercial Director Jim Carter told a London conference.

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Welsh procurement changes

The Welsh government’s procurement policy is to be ‘refreshed’ just over two years after it was launched in December 2012.

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Integrated insurance gets test

Integrated project insurance will be used for the first time on a UK construction contract on the £10 million CABTech Centre for Advanced Building Technologies and Construction Skills project at Dudley College.

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Bidding burden must come down

A recently published survey of bidding costs among the UK’s contractors and consultants makes for some worrying reading. That the costs are high and rising is widely appreciated within the industry but to see the extent of the problem spelled out will be a shock to some.

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Insuring the terrorism risk

Insurance expert John D Wright of JD Risk Associates explains what insurance cover against terrorism is available to the construction and property sectors. The cornerstone has been the Pool Re scheme which is under review.

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RIBA offers ‘value’ dispute resolution

In our latest alternative dispute resolution series article Rachel Chaplin of Clyde & Co examines two schemes from RIBA that offer viable quick and cheap dispute resolution options. Whilst most acknowledge that adjudication is quick, few would argue it is cheap.

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Protecting funders

Funders seem to run the development game but often opt for an overcautious approach, argues Pippa Beesley of Mundays in this overview of the tools they can use to protect their investments.

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All change or more of the same?

Julie Teal and Anne Davies of Withers look at the revised Construction (Design and Management) Regulations that take effect in April. The impact of the changes could be felt most keenly on smaller projects, they argue.

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