Death on site gets recycling company £300,000 fine

A recycling company has been fined £300,000 after a father-of-two was killed on site by being run over by a shovel loader.

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Competition authority launches new investigation into housebuilders

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published its final report on the housebuilding market in Great Britain and says it has found evidence during its study that some housebuilders may have breached competition law by sharing information, influencing the build-out of sites and the prices of new homes.

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Scottish planning consultations launched

The Scottish Government has gone to consultation on three proposals to improve the resilience and flexibility of the planning system.

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Managing change control following the Building Safety Act 2022

Guest Editors Roddy Cormack and Katie Percy of Dentons UK and Middle East LLP warn that the new change control regime introduced under the Building Safety Act could make allocating and managing contractual risk significantly more challenging. Long underused digital tools might provide some help.

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Reports from the courts: March 2024

Our regular analysis of court decisions of most interest to construction comes from Andrew Croft, Ben Spannuth and Daniela Miklova of Beale & Company Solicitors LLP who report on a case that reminds parties to comply with contractual notification requirements/payment obligations to avoid prejudicing their right to adjudicate; and a First Tier Tribunal decision that underlines that it has discretion under s124 of the Building Safety Act to determine whether a Remediation Contribution Order would be just and equitable.

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Courts upholding planning permissions against judicial review applications

Judicial review applications have not been having a successful time in the courts recently, with several high profile attempts to halt infrastructure projects having been refused this year. Here we examine a Scottish decision confirming that courts will maintain a non interventionist approach once planning has been granted.

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Construction Law Guide to: the new building safety regime

Our latest CL Guide series article comes from Rachel Chaplin of DLA Piper who examines implications of the new building safety regime.

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Adjudication: Does size and/or complexity matter?

Patrick Heneghan of 3PB Barristers asks whether Parliament intended adjudication to used in large or complex disputes. Can challenges based on claiming that the dispute is too large or complex succeed?

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The problem with RAAC: comparing liabilities, claims and remedies in Scotland and England

Julie Scott-Gilroy of Morton Fraser MacRoberts LLP explains differences between how liabilities and claims and remedies relating to the use of RAAC differ between Scots law and the rest of the UK. A key difference is the time during which claims can be made.

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The reincarnation of time-barred claims

Stephanie Geesink, Counsel, and Dom Turner-Harriss of Watson Farley & Williams LLP analyse a Court of Appeal judgment that sets out how the courts will approach fire safety claims under the Defective Premises Act following the introduction of the extended limitation period in the Building Safety Act.

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