All Legal articles – Page 90
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Insolvency protection: Reform or bust
With construction companies dropping like flies, what lessons can the UK learn from an Australian inquiry into insolvency protection?
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Litigation: Shedding the pounds
An alternative to litigation for a fraction of the price - bad news only for lawyers
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Kazakhstan: the regulations, the permits and the laws
Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world with huge economic potential, but how easy is it doing business there?
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Another man dies on a London building site
Fatality on site in Tottenham is second death on a London building site in a week
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India: The Supreme Court puts out the welcome mat
India should be even more attractive to foreign investors, now that a recent case has decided that Indian courts cannot interfere in foreign arbitration awards
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Standard form contracts: What the papers say
Time was there were just two standard form contracts – now there are umpteen of them. It makes no difference because they all get amended beyond recognition
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FITs: Happy Anniversary, Mr Barker
A year after the energy minister slashed the feed-in tariff for solar power the legal ramifications are still emerging, with the latest challenge coming in the form of a class action
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Construction Act: One year on
It is one year since the amended Construction Act came into effect - a landmark that has gone almost unnoticed. This might be because the amendments have had such little impact
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Taxman chases architect RMJM for £70,000
HMRC issues winding-up petition against subsidiary company of troubled firm
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Carillion had 'very limited involvement' in blacklisting
Contractor hits back at blacklisting campaign group which claims Carillion had much wider involvement than admitted
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Man killed and two injured on London building site
A man has been killed and two others injured after an accident on a building site in south-west London this morning.
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Design and build contracts: Confusion guaranteed
We have got used to thinking that there is an implied fitness for purpose warranty in a design and build contract. But a recent case has muddied the waters
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CIL: Nice little earner
The Community Infrastructure Levy was brought in to speed up development but the tariffs being set seem so arbitrary – and so hard to challenge – that it could have just the opposite effect
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Insurance special report: BIM
The rise of collaboration software has created a lot of questions for insurers - not least how to divide up and assign blame if anything goes wrong
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Ad-hoc adjudication: Cheque mate
An adjudicator decided that two parties had entered into an ad-hoc adjudication by dint of having paid his – rather hefty – fees upfront. But the TCC had other ideas
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Carillion: Trade union condoned blacklisting
Contractor claims unions were aware of database and condoned use to exclude ‘extremist elements’
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Labour calls for watchdog to act on blacklisting
Shadow business secretary urges Information Commissioner to take “swift and proactive” action on notifying blacklisted workers
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Solar legal claim swells to £50m
More firms join legal action against government over illegal cut to solar feed-in-tariff
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Carillion hits back at GMB over blacklisting claims
Richard Howson condemns union’s ‘appalling’ letter-writing campaign targeting contractor’s public sector clients