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 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...
Produced in association with 4 Pump CourtPrinciples of natural justiceIf an adjudicator breaches the rules of natural justice during the adjudication...
This Practice Note examines the extent to which contractors, sub-contractors and consultants have a duty to warn their employer of inadequacies that...
Scott Schedules are often very useful in construction disputes. They help to identify the key issues between the parties, and to set out for the judge...
This Practice Note considers the status of the programme in a construction contract, what difference it makes if the programme is a contract document...
This Practice Note identifies the key parties involved in most construction projects (including the employer, the contractor, the professional team of...
Is there a time limit for notifying tenderers of the outcome of a public procurement exercise?While there is no set time limit for notifying tenderers...
In conducting our research we have focussed on public procurement under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015), SI 2015/102.How does Brexit...
STOP PRESS: This Precedent is currently being reviewed as part of our routine quality control processes. On completion of the review the status of the...
This Q&A covers procurements carried out under Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015), SI 2015/102 and where the request to clarify the bid has...
The approach to modifications/variations of contracts (and when such amounts to a new award of a contract) changed when Public Contracts Regulations...
Eligibility and selection in public procurementContracting authorities conducting a public procurement exercise under the Public Contracts Regulations...
We have assumed that:‘This query relates to the competitive procedure with negotiation under regulation 29 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015,...