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CommentPredictions for 2010: Anyone for cold turkey?
The season of goodwill to all men is over, folks, so get ready for a year of wrangles, nit-picking, bust-ups over defects and early claims 鈥� like last year, only worse
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NewsCapita hit with 拢8m West One writ
Developer Devonshire Green Holdings is suing Capita Symonds for almost 拢8m in the latest row over the West One mixed-use scheme in Sheffield
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NewsSewage companies banned from restricting connection
Landmark case by Barratt leads to High Court ruling that conditions cannot be placed on connections to public sewers
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NewsNorth Midland appeals against 拢1.5m OFT fine
Contractor follows Kier, Durkan and Galliford Try after seeking legal advice
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Insurers to review timber-frame safety as claims soar 16%
The insurance industry has said it will launch a probe into the safety of timber-framed buildings, as concern grows over the cost of fire-related claims
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NewsInformation rules may put contractors off Scottish market
Lawyers warn that plans to extend Freedom of Information Act may be seen as a barrier to building firms
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CommentPayment rules: Financial mechanics
The new Construction Act may be but a distant prospect, but that doesn鈥檛 mean we can鈥檛 make a few educated guesses as to how its payment rules will work
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Blacklisted worker lawsuit could cost firms millions
Class action to be brought against over 40 firms including Balfour Beatty, Laing O鈥橰ourke and Kier
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CommentACE agreements: Altogether now
The recent streamlining of the two design agreements for consultants into one brings simplicity and flexibility as well as a new take on liability
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Interserve sues Bovis for 拢3m in sweet factory dispute
Details have emerged of a legal row between Bovis Lend Lease and Interserve over M&E work carried out by the latter on a 拢49m sweet factory in Yorkshire
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NewsGovernment to outlaw worker blacklisting
Lord Young reveals plan to stamp out 'despicable practice' of barring trade union activists from employment
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NewsCIOB threatens to expel cover-pricing firms
Professional body to launch own investigation into 10 member firms found guilty in OFT inquiry
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NewsFirms fined 拢126k after fatal scaffold collapse
McAleer & Rushe and Lee Smith Carpentry order to pay after one man died and two others were injured in a site accident in Milton Keynes
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NewsDurkan to appeal OFT fine
Firm to please innocent to charge related to its contracting arm and refute fine related to company it sold in 2007
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CommentDispute over loft extension: Just how annoyed am I?
When the Court of Appeal pondered the case of a spoilt view, the judges had to imagine themselves as ordinary, sensible members of the public and ask one simple question...
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News黑洞社区 firms face tough new bribery law
New anti-corruption bill in Queen's speech could leave construction firms open to bribery charges
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NewsCandys to fight former employee in court
Dispute over termination of contract and 拢160,000 bonus steps up a notch
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NewsLondon property developer fined 拢10k for safety breaches
Lahrie Mohamed pleaded guilty to putting workers at risk on two schemes