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The following Construction news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Higher-risk buildings—new regulations for Wales (The Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025)
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...
Time of the essence—construction contractsWhat does time of the essence mean?Where time is 'of the essence' it means that the stated time for...
Product liability insurance for the construction industryThis Practice Note looks at product liability insurance from the perspective of those engaged...
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
Standard of care in construction contractsThis Practice Note considers the obligation for contractors and consultants providing services under construction contracts to exercise reasonable skill and care. It looks at the implied term under section 13 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982
Negligence in constructionWhile tort claims are not as common in construction projects as breach of contract claims, they do still arise and it is not uncommon for a claimant to advance a claim in tort alongside, or in the alternative to, a claim in contract.The most relevant tort in construction is
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some
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