Budget 2024: What was in it for construction?
4 November 2024
Insight Hub
24 July 2024
With a new government avowing to ‘get Britain building’, the construction industry has cast a keen eye over the contents of the first King’s Speech of this parliament and will be thinking of what comes after. We look at the key pledges in housebuilding and infrastructure and what might happen next. Housebuilding Arguably taking centre…
Read more2 July 2024
Smash and grab adjudications arise when a contractor under a construction contract has made a payment application to which the employer has yet to respond with a payment or pay less notice. As a result, the contractor can accrue a right to payment for sums claimed without any reference to the substance of the sums…
Read more20 May 2024
Those on the losing end of an adjudication often look to a breach of natural justice in order to avoid enforcement of the decision. Though certainly possible, successfully arguing such a breach can certainly be a tough nut to crack. Two recent cases help demonstrate where the threshold lies in a key area for natural…
Read more7 May 2024
Introduction Delays to works are a common issue in construction projects. The exact cause(s) of any delay are not always easy to pinpoint, due to the complex and intricate nature of construction projects. Independent delay experts are often needed to analyse delays (thus helping to establish liability ) by doing the following: Determining the critical…
Read more6 March 2024
Condition precedents are common in various commercial agreements. In this article, we discuss the court’s general approach to considering contractual condition precedents, and whether, particularly after the recent case of Lancashire Schools SPC Phase 2 Limited v Lendlease Construction (Europe) Limited and Others [2024] EWHC 37 (TCC), the court may be prepared to disregard them. What…
Read more28 February 2024
Download Article It has been a busy year in the construction industry and within our team. There have been some standout legislative changes, including in relation to the Building Safety Act 2022, and the Government has issued a significant paper in respect of behaviours relating to PFI contracts. All the while the impact of inflation…
Read more17 January 2024
Smash and grab adjudications are a perpetual thorn in employers’ sides. A claim will pop up that a pay less notice has been missed and significant sums are now owed. Employers then need to cobble together procedural arguments to resist the claim. That’s hard enough as it is. But what if the contractor could also…
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