by William Brown | Oct 27, 2021 | Article
In this article, I have set out a “users guide” to the first instance and court of appeal decisions in the Van Oord UK Ltd v Dragados UK Ltd saga. In short, these decisions of the Scottish courts touch on the following...
by admin | Feb 1, 2021 | Article
On 26 January 2021, a judgement was handed down in the Irish High Court to enforce an Adjudicator’s decision made pursuant to the Construction Contracts Act 2013 (“the Act”). In this article, I briefly explain what Adjudication is before considering the significance...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | Article
The Technology and Construction Court has just handed down its first decision in relation to coronavirus and construction adjudication – so naturally time for an opportunistic article. I am referring to the decision in MillChris Developments Ltd v...
by William Brown | Mar 20, 2020 | Article
Following on from an earlier article I published on dealing with Coronavirus under NEC, this is a companion article on dealing with it under JCT. You should note from the outset that the JCT and NEC approaches are very different. So, if you have some...
by William Brown | Mar 16, 2020 | Article
It now looks likely that the UK construction industry will be adversely affected by the outbreak of coronavirus / COVID 19. It is therefore important for parties to NEC contracts to be aware of how the contract deals with this event. This article sets out, in a...
by William Brown | Mar 4, 2019 | Article
NEC has just published a series of amendments to its NEC4 suite of contracts. The detailed amendments made to each contract can be download in full via the link below[1]. Don’t panic. Most of the changes seem to be typo corrections and terminology tweaks –...
