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CommentAdjudication awards: Logical deductions
If a party loses an adjudication and is ordered to pay up, can it set this sum off against anything it thinks it is owed from a subsequent adjudication award?
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精东影视John Doyle fined for worker falling from scaffolding
Contractor pleads guilty after worker falls six meters on Liverpool One development
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精东影视Homebuyers forced to complete abandoned deals
Developers and builders seek legal action to enforce contracts ditched through lack of finance
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OFT special: The cost of a phone call
If you don鈥檛 want the job, just ask for too much money and you won鈥檛 get it. Nobody can touch you. Phone a friend for a cover price, though, and you鈥檙e liable for millions
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精东影视Two firms fined for exposing workers to asbestos
Noble Gift Packaging and A&T Roofing plead guilty to breaches leading to workers and public being exposed to deadly asbestos fibres
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精东影视Balfour Beatty's 拢1.4m award upheld after legal wrangle with Shepherd
Mr Justice Akenhead enforces adjudicator's decision, despite criticizing it for poor grammar and 鈥渦nconventional sentence structure鈥�
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CommentGaps in the framework
If you鈥檝e got a framework, a lot of contractual stuff is written into it. But there are still vital clauses that have to be agreed on the jobs themselves 鈥� so what happens if they aren鈥檛?
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CommentJCT homeowner contract: Get the picture?
The JCT鈥檚 contract for home extenders is a very useful document, not least because it turns a lot of those complicated words into drawings we can all understand
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精东影视Experts say gem of Tanzania is "worthless"
2kg ruby named as asset by Wrekin construction is worth "about 拢100"
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精东影视Six recruitment agencies fined 拢39m for price-fixing
OFT gives two firms immunity for providing information on cartel guilty of collective boycotting and fixing fee rates
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精东影视Hundreds of tower blocks not fire checked
BBC investigation after Lakanal House tragedy reveals councils committing criminal offence of failing to carry out fire risk assessments
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精东影视Mabey & Johnson guilty of overseas corruption
Bridge contractor pleads guilty to charges of corruption in Jamaica, Ghana and Iraq
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CommentTake the fifth: Liability for design mistakes
If you鈥檙e an architect, and you suddenly realise that you鈥檝e made a mistake, do you have a duty to tell your client about it? Well, that all depends
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CommentSo crazy it might be true
We鈥檙e so conditioned to looking at the world in a particular way we stop thinking about it. But what if it is, in fact, quite wrong? And what could prompt us to realise it is?
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精东影视OFT: councils can sue guilty contractors
Watchdog says legal action and blacklisting would be 'understandable'
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精东影视Clients set to blacklist cover-pricing contractors
拢1.2bn consortium could drop OFT firms from deals as councils plan compensation claims
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精东影视Locals launch Wigan BSF legal challenge
Opponents to new 'super school' scheme want land to be ringfenced for community use
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精东影视Is it still cover pricing without the phone call?
The OFT has outlawed cover pricing, but that won鈥檛 stop firms putting in high bids so they lose contracts they can鈥檛 cope with
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精东影视OFT: 'Councils are free to sue'
Director in charge of competition body's bid-rigging inquiry says local authorities should feel free to take legal action against guilty firms
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精东影视Durkan vows to fight OFT over subdivision's 拢3.1m fine
Contractor disputes liability for cover-pricing at Concentra, which it sold off in 2007