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Registration Deadline Extended for Registered Building Inspectors

The Health and Safety Executive (“HSE”) has extended the deadline for the registration of Registered Building Inspectors (“RBIs”) to 6 July 2024 following industry concerns.

Back in April 2023, the HSE set out its strategic context for the regulation of the building control framework as a result of the changes introduced by the Building Safety Act 2022. A set of

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Avoiding Late Payment in Construction – A Fair Payment Practices Guide

Background

Payment issues in the construction industry have been well known for some time. With cash flow being critical to the success of construction projects and the solvency of the wider supply chain, late payments or long payment periods create acute points of contention between clients and suppliers.

Overall, late payments are considered detrimental because they disrupt financial stability, incur

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Sharpe Pritchard Shortlisted for Legal Advisor of the Year at the Prestigious Partnership Awards 2024

Partners and associates at Sharpe Pritchard, a leader in public sector law, are celebrating its most recent shortlisting for Legal Advisor of the Year at the Partnership Awards 2024.

Recognised as the industry’s most significant celebration of excellence in the public-private partnership (PPP) space, the Partnership Awards spotlight those who leverage partnerships to achieve extraordinary success stories.

Having reviewed Sharpe

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Redactions to disclosure in judicial review litigation – a further update

We have written previously on the string of recent cases confirming that in judicial review litigation the duty of candour ordinarily requires the names of junior civil servants to be disclosed in unredacted form when providing disclosure.

In a recent decision – MTA v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Ors [2024] EWHC 553 (Admin) (“MTA”)

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Sharpe Pritchard celebrates its investment in equality for International Women’s Day

One of the UK’s leading public sector law firms, Sharpe Pritchard, is hosting several events and sharing its positive message about investing in up-and-coming female talent as part of its celebration of International Women’s Day.

The London law firm is renowned for its people-led growth strategy and has previously been named as one of the Top 5 practices to work

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Condition Precedents in Light of Lancashire Schools v Lendlease

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 is a ‘condition precedent’?

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