Legal – Page 81
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McArdle collapse leaves creditors £5.3m out of pocket
Administrator finds funds to pay 61% of value of trade creditors’ bills, while around half the firm’s 155 staff have been made redundant
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Ӱ Act: A pier entrance can be deceptive
Hastings council’s decision to close part of the town pier due to fears over its structural integrity put the provisions of the Ӱ Act 1984 to the test - with perhaps surprising results
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Sweett launches probe into bribery allegations
Firm denies knowledge of alleged historic incident involving employee in Morocco
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Labour fires warning over land 'hoarding'
Labour is set to outline proposal to tackle land banking to boost housebuilding numbers, inlcuding fining developers
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Amended standard forms: Just say no
‘Amended’ standard forms are a cunning ruse that use pages and pages of modifications to pile risk onto subbies. But why do they agree to sign them?
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Ӱ regulations to be integrated into BIM
Working group looks at ways to integrate regulations, planning and health and safety requirements into BIM models
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Surveyor jailed after double life as graffiti vandal
A building surveyor has been jailed for 3½ years after being convicted of spray painting graffiti on an ‘industrial scale’
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JV agreements: Common provisions
Five of the most important provisions in a joint venture agreement
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Bahrain: Construction opportunities in the ‘land of the two seas’
Bahrain is a pure and sacred place known as “the Pearl of the Arabian Gulf” – and a place with an increasing number of opportunities for UK construction
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Sellafield fined £700k for dumping radioactive waste
Firm pleaded guilty to seven counts of sending irradiated waste to a landfill site
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Limitation periods and adjudication
The idea of adjudication is that it has no bearing on any subsequent litigation or arbitration, but in this case a clever argument tried to get around that principle
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Easements: What's yours is theirs
How easements - rights that people who don’t own the land can exercise on it - can hold up a development
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May Gurney shareholders approve Kier takeover
May Gurney shareholder overwhelmingly approve Kier’s £221m proposed takeover
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Tim Yeo steps aside as committee chair
Tim Yeo steps aside from role as chair of energy and climate change committee while alleged lobbying breaches are investigated
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No crime and punishment
Contracting authorities can ban bidders from their tenders for certain crimes and also for non-criminal acts that amount to ‘grave misconduct’
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Fire breaks out at Brookfield's Glasgow Hospital
A fire broke out at Brookfield Multiplex’s Southern General Hospital site in Glasgow
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Knowing who you're in contract with
Problems with a retaining wall led to a dispute for damages. But who had the engineer signed a contract with - a business or an individual?
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MAC clauses: Phantom menace
Material Adverse Change clauses are often included in commercial contracts but rarely enforced. Developers need to be aware of what can happen when they are, as a recent case has shown
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Lewis' Ӱ contractor set to go bust
Merepark Construction faces liquidation after bank ceases payments on redevelopment of iconic Lewis’ Ӱ