Navigate the intricate regulatory landscape of the construction industry with expert insight and practical advice. This topic provides comprehensive guidance on compliance, from local building codes to complex environmental standards, ensuring your projects adhere to all necessary legal requirements. You will find essential tools and strategies for managing risk, mitigating legal exposure, and maintaining operational efficiency within the stringent regulatory framework.
Construction analysis: The Technology and Construction Court (TCC) enforced an adjudicator’s decision awarding liquidated damages and rejected a...
Dispute Resolution analysis: The minutes of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) annual open meeting of 8 May 2025 (conducted in a hybrid format...
Construction analysis: The Technology and Construction Court (TCC) struck out a property damage claim arising from adjoining building works and...
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has published a statement detailing the impacts of the government’s planned steel tariffs and quotas, which...
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...
What is a section 104 agreement?A section 104 agreement usually refers to an agreement made pursuant to section 104 of the Water Industry Act 1991 (WAI 1991, s104). Under a section 104 agreement, a landowner and water company/sewerage undertaker agree that after completion of construction of 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
Contributory negligence in personal injury claimsContributory negligence is a partial defence which can lead to a discount in damages.Other defences may also be relevant. See Practice Notes: Did the claimant consent to the risk of injury? and Was the claimant involved in an illegal activity?If a
Can shares in a limited company that have not been paid-up at all be cancelled?A limited company having a share capital may not alter that share capital, except in the ways listed in section 617 of the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006). Shares in a company cannot simply be cancelled without following an
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