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Comment黑洞社区 Act: A pier entrance can be deceptive
Hastings council鈥檚 decision to close part of the town pier due to fears over its structural integrity put the provisions of the 黑洞社区 Act 1984 to the test - with perhaps surprising results
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NewsSweett launches probe into bribery allegations
Firm denies knowledge of alleged historic incident involving employee in Morocco
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NewsLabour fires warning over land 'hoarding'
Labour is set to outline proposal to tackle land banking to boost housebuilding numbers, inlcuding fining developers
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News黑洞社区 regulations to be integrated into BIM
Working group looks at ways to integrate regulations, planning and health and safety requirements into BIM models
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CommentAmended standard forms: Just say no
鈥楢mended鈥� standard forms are a cunning ruse that use pages and pages of modifications to pile risk onto subbies. But why do they agree to sign them?
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NewsSurveyor jailed after double life as graffiti vandal
A building surveyor has been jailed for 3陆 years after being convicted of spray painting graffiti on an 鈥榠ndustrial scale鈥�
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CommentJV agreements: Common provisions
Five of the most important provisions in a joint venture agreement
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CommentBahrain: Construction opportunities in the 鈥榣and of the two seas鈥�
Bahrain is a pure and sacred place known as 鈥渢he Pearl of the Arabian Gulf鈥� 鈥� and a place with an increasing number of opportunities for UK construction
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NewsSellafield fined 拢700k for dumping radioactive waste
Firm pleaded guilty to seven counts of sending irradiated waste to a landfill site
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CommentEasements: What's yours is theirs
How easements - rights that people who don鈥檛 own the land can exercise on it - can hold up a development
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CommentLimitation periods and adjudication
The idea of adjudication is that it has no bearing on any subsequent litigation or arbitration, but in this case a clever argument tried to get around that principle
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NewsMay Gurney shareholders approve Kier takeover
May Gurney shareholder overwhelmingly approve Kier鈥檚 拢221m proposed takeover
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NewsTim Yeo steps aside as committee chair
Tim Yeo steps aside from role as chair of energy and climate change committee while alleged lobbying breaches are investigated
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CommentNo crime and punishment
Contracting authorities can ban bidders from their tenders for certain crimes and also for non-criminal acts that amount to 鈥榞rave misconduct鈥�
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NewsFire breaks out at Brookfield's Glasgow Hospital
A fire broke out at Brookfield Multiplex鈥檚 Southern General Hospital site in Glasgow
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NewsYeo caught in lobbying sting
But chair of energy and climate change committee denies wrong doing
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CommentKnowing who you're in contract with
Problems with a retaining wall led to a dispute for damages. But who had the engineer signed a contract with - a business or an individual?
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CommentMAC clauses: Phantom menace
Material Adverse Change clauses are often included in commercial contracts but rarely enforced. Developers need to be aware of what can happen when they are, as a recent case has shown
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NewsLewis' 黑洞社区 contractor set to go bust
Merepark Construction faces liquidation after bank ceases payments on redevelopment of iconic Lewis鈥� 黑洞社区
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NewsCouncils could lose planning powers
Government publishes regulations that could see councils that block development have their planning powers removed