Construction Focus: The end of the age of collaborative working?

John Starr examines collaborative working in the context of the Latham report, and the realities of the construction industry ‘Some academic commentators are quick to extol the virtues of altruistic behaviour, even where this involves the voluntary compromise of commercial rights, whereas to others this approach appears foolish, even dangerous.’Collaborative working (sometimes referred to as …
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Construction Focus: Adjudicators’ fees

John Starr reviews a recent case involving the reasonableness of the fees charged The Construction Act (that is to say the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, as recently amended by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009) gives the parties to a construction contract the right to refer their disputes to …
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