September 2011
Click to download PDF"Identifying and managing your legal expectations to avoid pitfalls in an increasingly demanding project role"
July 2011
In this paper, Nicholas Gould reviews professional liability with a particular emphasis on modern project management practice. In reality, this means a traditional form of forward thinking construction professionals (quantity surveyors, now commercial cost managers, or some other derivation, building surveyors, architects, engineers) that have expanded into the area of project management and those acting as employer’s agents (there are of course those who have qualified as project managers (PM) or taken a masters degrees in the subject).
"The interventionist Judge"
7 May 2010
Simon Tolson in an article first published in Building considers the crucial role judges can play in litigation, focussing on the decision of Mr Justice Coulson in the Brookfield v Mott MacDonald case
"Bonds, Warranties and Guarantees"
17 October 2008
David Bebb in a paper given to the Sweet & Maxwell Construction Law 2008 conference, discusses what you really need to know about bonds and guarantees. In doing so, he highlights the basic legal principles, reviews what some of the key provisions mean and asks why they are needed and finally considers some common pitfalls when drafting these documents.
"Corporate Manslaughter"
7 November 2006
Jon Miller, in a paper given at the third Fenwick Elliott seminar entitled “Capital Projects in the Education Sector”, sets out the status of the proposed Government reforms outlined in the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill and discusses how these new reforms might effect you.