December 2024

Fenwick Elliott Annual Review 2024/2025

This year’s Annual Review takes stock of the industry’s most significant issues, opportunities and challenges, both domestically and internationally, over the past year.  This includes a closer look at developments and precedents for standard form contracts such as JCT, FIDIC and NEC, as well as PFI contracts and EPCM. We include a dedicated ‘pull out’ section to discuss recent developments in international arbitration. Finally, the Annual Review includes our customary focus on the year’s key adjudication decisions and case law.

Annual Review articles

• Welcome
• The view from the Building the Future Think Tank
• Paid late? Choose your weapon.
• Building Liability Orders: when will it be just and equitable to pierce the corporate veil?
• What lies beneath revisited: ground risk and site conditions in the JCT DB 2024
• Henry Construction v ProMEP: TCC decides an adjudicator’s decision was not procured by fraud
• Defining the boundaries: recent rulings clarify the applicability of the HGCRA
• Serial adjudications: when has a dispute already been determined?
• Extending time for serving an adjudication referral after the notice of adjudication
• Related disputes in PFI and PPP projects: looking both ways at the same time?
• State immunity for the registration of awards under ICSID: Court of Appeal provides clarity
• arbitrateAD launches in Abu Dhabi
• The 7th Edition of the SIAC Rules
• Churchill and mediation: a job done or room for improvement?
• What is conflict avoidance and why is it becoming more and more important?
• The increasing demand for data centres
• ‘Great British Energy’ and the challenges in meeting Britain’s ambitious renewable energy targets
• Navigating the future of energy projects with EPCM contracts
• From promise to practice: how AI shaped construction law in 2024
• Adjudication: cases from Dispatch
• Other cases: Construction Industry Law Letter
• The Fenwick Elliott Blog: Late payments – you’re on really thin ice now
• In memory of Jon Miller

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