This Practice Note examines agreements entered into under sections 38 and 278 of the Highways Act 1980, considering the obligations they impose and,...
What is a letter of intent?Letters of intent are used in construction and engineering projects to allow the employer to mobilise a contractor before...
What is sectional completion?Where the construction contract splits the works into sections or parts, usually to be started at different times, there...
This Practice Note provides an overview of what interim payments are, how the right to be paid (usually by monthly or stage/milestone payments) arises...
Produced in association with 4 Pump CourtPrinciples of natural justiceIf an adjudicator breaches the rules of natural justice during the adjudication...
The JCT Pre-Construction Services Agreement was launched in 2008. A revised edition was published in 2011 to incorporate the amendments to the Housing...
This Practice Note examines the extent to which contractors, sub-contractors and consultants have a duty to warn their employer of inadequacies that...
Scott Schedules are often very useful in construction disputes. They help to identify the key issues between the parties, and to set out for the judge...
If a party is said to have ‘design liability’, it means that it bears legal responsibility for all or part of the design of a construction/engineering...
This Practice Note identifies the key parties involved in most construction projects (including the employer, the contractor, the professional team of...