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What are preliminaries in a construction contract?What are prelims?‘Preliminaries’ in a construction contract, or ‘prelims’, is typically taken to...
What is a variation on a construction project?A variation (sometimes referred to as a change) is an alteration to the scope of work originally...
Escrow accounts and escrow agreementsThis Practice Note examines why parties involved in a construction project may enter into an escrow agreement (or...
Defects liability period and rectification of defectsIt is common in construction projects for defects to manifest or appear in the works. Most...
Duty to warnThis Practice Note examines the extent to which contractors, sub-contractors and consultants have a duty to warn their employer of inadequacies that they discover in designs that have been produced, or works that have been carried out, by others.If a contractor or a sub-contractor
Good faith in construction contractsThis Practice Note considers if and when a duty of good faith may be implied into a construction contract, and also looks at some of the standard form construction contracts which contain express obligations to act in good faith, including their effect on the
Implied terms in construction contractsThe implication of terms into a contract is a large and complicated area of law. Sometimes, a particular term will be implied automatically into all contracts of a specific type, either by statute or by common law. In other cases, implied terms are a way of
Hierarchy of documents within a construction contractThis Practice Note considers hierarchy of documents clauses within a building contract (otherwise known as order of precedence clauses, precedence clauses or priority of documents clauses).Construction contracts can be lengthy and made up of a
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