Joe Griffiths

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    Changes to bankruptcy proceedings: No credit where it's due

    2012-06-06T00:00:00

    Some of the proposed reforms to petitioning for bankruptcy are to be welcomed but others will hit creditors at a time when they are already struggling for survival

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    Minimising the risks if your contractor might go bust

    2012-02-24T00:00:00

    A developer is in a tough spot if he suspects his contractor might go bust - insolvency is not a breach of contract, and if he terminates it incorrectly there may be trouble

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    Rainy Sky vs Kookmin Bank: Common sense prevails

    2011-12-05T00:00:00

    Be reassured that commercial agreements you make will be upheld in a common sense way by the courts, as demonstrated by the Supreme Court’s recent decision on this case

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    Wonders and blunders with Joe Griffiths

    2011-12-02T00:00:00

    Joe Griffiths wants to keep New York’s precious Chrysler ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø firmly in his sights but had a lucky escape from London’s equivalent of the gateway to Mordor, Archway Tower

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    Work related deaths: Swift justice

    2011-10-10T12:17:00

    The third version of the Work Related Deaths Protocol came into effect on 1 October, and it could see firms responsible for a fatality on their site prosecuted a lot quicker

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    Reading the Riot Act

    2011-09-09T00:00:00

    If your project suffered a loss as a result of the riots this August you may be able to claim compensation under a JCT contract or even from the police through a 125-year-old statute

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    Reading the riot act

    2011-09-05T09:56:00

    If your project suffered a loss as a result of the riots this August you may be able to claim compensation under a JCT contract or even from the police through a 125 year old statute

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    Network rail shake-up: light at the end of the tunnel

    2011-02-25T00:00:00

    Roy McNulty’s interim report on how to get value for money from the railway sector suggests that train operating companies are set to be turned into quasi developers

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    Collaborative law: A new use for lawyers

    2010-11-05T00:00:00

    US family lawyers have devised a dispute resolution method - collaborative law - that rethinks the roles played by clients’ legal advisers. Now it’s being used in commercial disputes

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    Advance payment bonds: Another bond story

    2010-10-01T00:00:00

    On-demand bonds to protect advance payments are a really good idea, but a recent case shows that you have to give the courts as little room for interpretation as possible

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    The death sentence is getting tougher

    2008-04-04T00:00:00

    The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act comes into force on Sunday. Best to know what it entails now

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    The Lords’ diagnosis

    2007-11-09T00:00:00

    Joe Griffiths Can an employer be found negligent if the presence of asbestos fibres in a former worker’s lungs causes clinical depression? The House of Lords thought not

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    Watching our waste line

    2007-05-04T00:00:00

    Aghast at the amount of waste generated within our industry and at our reluctance to do much about it, the government wants to make site waste management compulsory. But is it going after the right guys?

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    Damage limitation

    2006-02-10T00:00:00

    When the Court of Appeal ruled that workers with ‘pleural plaques' linked to asbestos use had no right to be compensated, it overturned 20 years of legal precedent

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    After the fall

    2003-07-25T00:00:00

    In the absence of a conventional government in Iraq, what is the legal status of contracts signed with state bodies? And how about those signed with Saddam's regime?