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It's electrifying - The largest programme of Railway Electrification in 50 years!

May 22, 2014

Whilst the railways are their own industry and have specific health and safety legislation and special areas of expertise not found elsewhere, such as signalling, the massive infrastructure required to carry track, stations for the public and servicing depots for locomotives and rolling stock means that there are opportunities for the construction industry and even opportunities for those with transferable skills to move across into railway industry.

The New Construction Supply Chain Payment Charter – Will it change anything?

May 22, 2014

The construction industry, or certainly parts of it, has been talking about changing payment practices for years. Is that not what statutory adjudication was supposed to do – prevent those that sit higher in the supply chain holding on to money that is due to those that are usually smaller and reside further down the supply chain pecking order?

Adjudication – Can you set off against an Adjudicator's Decision?

January 6, 2014

In the recent case of Thameside Construction Company Limited v Stevens&Anor [2013] EWHC 2071 (TCC) Mr Justice Akenhead was asked to decide on whether a party who had been directed to pay the other party, arising out of an adjudicator's decision, could set-off liquidated damages against the payment due.

Construction Law Review - "The Legal Beagle" - Edition1

December 3, 2013

Welcome to the first of our Construction Law Reviews which aims to provide an update on the law and contractual matters affecting construction and the construction services industry. By way of introduction, I am Trevor Drury, Managing Director of Morecraft Drury. We specialise in construction claims, contractual advice, expert witness and dispute avoidance/resolution services. I will be choosing topics which I consider current, the subject of recent case law, changes to statute or new or amended contracts that have been released. If you have any burning issue that you would like me to consider for future issues please email me your questions or ideas for consideration.

Construction Dispute Resolution - what's changed in the last 20 years?

October 17, 2013

The late 1980s and early 1990s were bleak times for construction. There was an explosion of particularly ugly construction disputes and a raft of business collapses as the industry plunged into recession.