Condition Precedents in Light of Lancashire Schools v Lendlease
6 March 2024
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28 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…
Read more11 October 2023
Last month, Kort Egan presented a paper to the Society of Construction Law on “Smash and Grab” adjudications. These adjudications are common, and so we thought it would be useful to provide a summary of the paper. What Is a Smash and Grab Adjudication? A “smash and grab” adjudication is one where payment is sought…
Read more18 August 2023
Employers still trip up when it comes to issuing pay less notices. As a result they can find themselves on the sharp end of ‘smash and grab’ adjudications and paying substantial sums even where there is no merit behind them. True value adjudications can come to the rescue. They are an opportunity for employers to…
Read more24 March 2023
Sharpe Pritchard has underscored its commitment to equal representation in the legal profession by signing the Equal Representation in Adjudication Pledge. Last autumn, the Centre for Construction Law & Dispute Resolution at King’s College London, in collaboration with The Adjudication Society, released the report ‘2022 Construction Adjudication in the United Kingdom: Tracing Trends and Guiding…
Read more6 April 2022
Introduction Our first article in this series explained the background to the statutory right to adjudicate disputes arising under construction contracts. In this piece, we look at the start of the adjudication process and address the practicalities that are frequently stumbling blocks. As is made clear by the typical adjudication timetable included at the end…
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