This Practice Note examines agreements entered into under sections 38 and 278 of the Highways Act 1980, considering the obligations they impose and,...
It is common in construction projects for defects to manifest or appear in the works. Most construction contracts require the contractor to return to...
This Practice Note looks at Employer’s Requirements (also referred to as ERs) within a building contract. It explains what Employer’s Requirements are...
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...
While 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...
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...
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...
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...
The JCT publishes a standard form framework agreement called the JCT Framework Agreement (JCT FA). It was first published in 2005 in both binding and...
Case studyThe owner is building an extension on property A and needs to erect scaffolding on property B to do so. The works are not repair works and...
The developer will have required a licence from the local authority in respect of the crane oversailing the highway, and in respect of the consequent...
A statutory tower crane registration scheme was introduced in April 2010 by the Notification of Conventional Tower Crane Regulations 2010 and imposed...
For information relating to joint, several, and joint and several liability, see:•Practice Note: Joint, several, and joint and several liability•Q&A:...
Date [insert date of licence]Parties1[insert name of Landlord] of [insert address][ incorporated in England and Wales with company registration number...
SCHEDULEBond Number [insert]Dated:Parties1The Employer: [insert] incorporated in [England and Wales] (Company Number [insert]) whose registered office...
This Practice Note looks at various factors that construction lawyers need to consider in relation to projects involving demolition works, including...
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...
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