Legal terms explained: Indemnities

An indemnity is an express contractual obligation on Party A to compensate Party B for some defined loss or damage by making a payment.

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Construction strategy widens

The Cabinet Office is to widen the focus of the government Construction Strategy beyond the original seven major spending departments to take in departments with smaller but significant construction budgets.

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Supply chains boost safety

Construction supply chains can have a positive effect on health and safety management in high profile organisations and projects according to research by Cardiff University for the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).

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News in Brief: November 2012

The amended Construction Contracts (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 comes into force on 14 November 2012, and the Scheme for Construction Contracts is amended with effect from the same date.

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Procurement malaise spreads

Earlier this year ((2012) 23.2 CL p 1, Editor’s Comment) we reported on yet another promised procurement shake up in central government. Fewer than half of major government projects were being delivered on time and to budget and a new initiative was announced to train 145 senior civil servants to take over project management roles currently being undertaken by consultants.

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Fraud warning

Insider fraud is a bigger problem in companies in construction than in other industries and six out of ten construction, engineering and infrastructure businesses were affected by corruption in the last 12 months, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey.

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Waiting for the Act to bite

Guest editor Stephen Barnfield of Hill Dickinson assesses what impact the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and the Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008 have had on construction.

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Reports from the courts: October 2012

Our regular round up of court decisions of most relevance to construction comes from Will Buckby and Andrew Croft of Beale and Company and looks at a TCC case that underlines the importance of clear drafting of settlement agreements; and another highlighting the difficulties of making a CPR Pt 8 application during an adjudication.

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Calling projects to account

Our contracts monitor Michael Phipps, Principal of Thurston Consultants, scrutinises the JCT’s Project Bank Account documentation, which can be used with all JCT standard forms and on any size or type of project.

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