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  • Exclusions and Limitation of Liability Part I

    United Kingdom 17.10.2002
    Incorporation, points to note · Usually the exclusion will be in writing. · Ensure the terms are properly incorporated within the contract....

  • Exclusions and Limitation of Liability Part II

    United Kingdom 16.10.2002
    Exclusions and Limitation of Liability Part II 1. Indirect and Consequential Loss · Remoteness of loss and “the two limbs rule” in Hadley -v- Baxendale [1854] 9 Exch 341 The courts...

  • Project insurances and the revised Government guidance

    United Kingdom 15.10.2002
    The 3 years since the first edition of the Office of Government Commerce guidance on the Standardisation of PFI Contracts have seen dramatic changes in the insurance market as a whole and considerable...

  • Recent construction cases round-up 2

    United Kingdom 15.10.2002
    ACT Construction Limited v E Clarke and Sons (Coaches) Limited, Court of Appeal, 16.7.02 (2002) EWCA CIV 972 The Claimant undertook demolition and construction works for the Defendant. Nearly three years...

  • Reforming the law on compound interest

    United Kingdom 15.10.2002
    The Law Commission has recently published its Consultation Paper on compound interest. It has proposed that “compound interest be made available in all money judgments and [that] unless there are...

  • Adjudication comes home to roost for the professional team

    United Kingdom 15.10.2002
    The fears of Professional Indemnity Insurers that adjudication would hasten some sort of Armageddon never really came to pass. Most adjudications have been Employer/Contractor or Contractor/Sub-contractor...

  • Contribution revisited

    United Kingdom 15.10.2002
    The House of Lords’ Decision in CRS v Taylor Young Partnership Limited The application of the law of contribution to construction disputes was reported on by Clare Collier in the December 2001 edition...

  • To ADR or not to ADR? Recent judicial guidance

    United Kingdom 15.10.2002
    There are a number of perceptions about mediation that will be difficult to change despite its ever increasing popularity. One such perception is that if you agree to mediation then, as a Claimant, you...

  • The new asbestos regulations: risks and opportunities

    United Kingdom 15.10.2002
    It is a remarkable fact that, more than 100 years after Victorian factory inspectors first warned of the hazards to human health of breathing in asbestos fibres, there are currently 3,000 deaths per year...

  • Obligations to warn under the JCT contracts - contractors beware

    United Kingdom 15.10.2002
    The judgment of HHJ Richard Seymour QC in Co-operative Insurance Society Limited v Henry Boot Scotland Limitedand others (1 July 2002) considered 2 issues that arise regularly in practice but are rarely...

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