London-based public law specialist, Sharpe Pritchard, has promoted four lawyers to the partnership.
Aidan Dickinson, Gemma Duncan, Gemma Townley and Peter Collins are all now partners of the firm.
Their promotions strengthen the firm’s real estate development, compulsory purchase, corporate, and ICT and data offerings.
Aidan Dickinson is a real estate lawyer specialising in compulsory purchase matters. He
Author: Tola Odedoyin and Edwina Acland
This is a Scottish case that considered what is required to satisfy the wording “the basis on which that sum is calculated” for pay less notices. Simply stating the amount due was zero, but not adding any more information rendered the pay less notice invalid in this case.
The requirements for a pay less notice
Authors: Justin Mendelle and Tola Odedoyin
Update
After the 2016 judgment in Lulu Construction Ltd (“Lulu”) v Mulalley & Co Ltd, the door on recovering costs in adjudication was ajar. The recent unreported case of Enviroflow Management Limited v Redhill Works (Nottingham) Limited may have closed it.
The issue is how the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996
Background
Cyden Homes Limited (the “Defendant”) engaged North Midland Building Limited (the “Claimant”) to design and construct a large house (known as ‘South Farm’) plus outbuildings. The contract used was the JCT Design & Build Contract 2005 with bespoke amendments.
The amendment at issue in this case concerned the extension of time provision where the employer has received notification of
Data protection anoraks across the European Union (myself proudly included) eagerly awoke on 1 January this year with only one thought in mind: next year the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect. After years of dialogue, tweaking, pondering and waiting, the GDPR will become applicable in the UK on 25 May 2018. Rejoice!
Although not everyone
Cases such as ISG v Seevic[1] and Galliford Try v Estura[2] illustrate the problems that can occur when a payer fails to issue the required payment or payless notices. The aforementioned cases established the principle that where, in respect of interim payment applications, there is an absence of the appropriate notices, an adjudicator cannot deal with the issue
