Sharpe Pritchard LLP is delighted to announce its successful support of Stoke-on-Trent City Council in procuring a contract for their Energy from Waste Facility in Hanford. The contract, signed on March 18, 2025, is set to go live on April 1, 2025, marking the culmination of over two years of hard work.
Sharpe Pritchard advised and worked closely with the
Author: Michael Comba
The effect of the moratorium provisions of the Corporate Governance and Insolvency Act 2020 and adjudication.
Insolvency, not COVID-19, is promising to be adjudication’s hot topic for 2020. Following the landmark judgment in Bresco, the recently passed Corporate Governance and Insolvency Act 2020 (the “Act”) raises yet more questions for when dealing with insolvency and adjudication.
The process for issuing notices is a well-known potential source of dispute for parties to a construction contract. More than ever, with most offices operating remotely, contractual notices are necessarily being sent by email. This judgment in the High Court shed light on some of the challenges presented by this method of service, and is worth revisiting in the current
This case has provided some useful guidance on the enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision outside of the jurisdiction defined by the contract. The court heard two interlinked disputes brought by the parties to the contract – a ‘jurisdiction application’ and an ‘enforcement application’.
The respondent employer (M& M Contractors (Europe) Limited) was domiciled in Northern Ireland. It had contracted
Although the economic scale of the coronavirus crisis is impossible to predict with any certainty, the pandemic has already had a profound effect on business operations. With that in mind, we turn our attention to how contracting parties in the commercial and construction industries can protect themselves in existing and future contracts.
Force majeure is
The judgment of Mr Justice Griffiths in this case has provided some helpful guidelines as to the basis on which costs can be awarded on an indemnity basis to a successful party. It serves as a warning to parties seeking to avoid engaging in attempts to settle a dispute by Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
In this case, judgment had previously
