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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)
The following Arbitration news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Post-hearing delay and the Public Policy Threshold in Arbitration (Lancor Holdings Ltd v Prem Kumar Menon)
The following Arbitration news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Commentary—international arbitration experts discuss the use of an AI arbitrator for construction arbitrations
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...
Joint names insurance—construction contractsThis Practice Note examines the nature of joint names insurance, the distinction between joint and composite insurance and its impact on construction insurance contracts generally.A common requirement of construction contracts is to execute insurance in
Priority between loss reliefs in loss making companiesWhy does it matter?A company that is a member of a group and has incurred any of the types of losses available for surrender by way of group relief may, without any further rules, have more than one way in which to use the loss. There are a
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
Strike out—making an application to strike out a statement of caseA strike out order can be made either following an application by the parties or on the court's own initiative. This Practice Note deals with the scenario of the order being made following a party's application.Making an application
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