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Labour government picks up the baton on Arbitration Bill

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:50:00 +0000

A bill to settle contractual or financial disputes faster will proceed under the new Labour government, after it took advice from the Law Commission. The Arbitration Bill will continue through parliament following the King’s Speech earlier this week. It was introduced to parliament by the…

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Call for clarity after product safety bill announced

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:45:34 +0000

Industry figures have called for clarity around product-marking regulations after the government signalled it may allow alignment with European standards to continue. This week’s King’s Speech, the first under Sir Keir Starmer's premiership, contained plans to bring forward a Product Safety and Metrology Bill. Background…

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New version of Common Assessment Standard released by Build UK

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:45:13 +0000

Industry body Build UK has released an updated version of the Common Assessment Standard (CAS), including new questions on firms’ building-safety capabilities. The CAS is an industry-agreed set of questions and corresponding assessment standards that can pre-qualify construction suppliers for projects. The updated version (V4)…

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Supreme Court turns the tables on collateral warranties

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:43:02 +0000

Matthew Taylor is a partner and Aidan Steensma is of counsel at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang The Supreme Court last week reversed 11 years of law in relation to the existence of a statutory right to adjudicate under collateral warranties. The right depends on…

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Guarded welcome for latest JCT 2024 rollout

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:25:36 +0000

The latest instalment of the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) 2024 suite of contracts may have left key aspects of the Building Safety Act (BSA) unaddressed, experts have said. JCT included 13 documents in its Intermediate Building Contract (IBC) release on Wednesday (10 July). The intermediate…

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‘A significant reversal of the law’: Supreme Court rules on collateral warranties

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:17:53 +0000

The Supreme Court has ruled that most collateral warranties are not construction contracts and therefore are not subject to adjudication. On Monday (8 July) the five Supreme Court judges unanimously found that Abbey Healthcare, the tenant of a 65-bedroom care home in north London, could…

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Revealed: sharp drop in work at height safety investigations

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:00:53 +0000

The number of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigations into falls from height in construction has dropped starkly, Construction News can reveal. Prospect, the union representing HSE inspectors, warned that the organisation has scaled back its investigations across all types and abolished its construction division.…

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Keltbray profit slips but orders rocket

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:13:31 +0000

Keltbray has dropped back into the red, partly due to ongoing costs related to its case against the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over the level of its fine for colluding over tender prices between 2013 and 2018. The multidisciplinary specialist swung to a pre-tax…

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Firm involved in high-risk buildings delay receives sanction

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:23:05 +0000

A building control company which last month saw its high-risk building inspection work taken over by the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has been sanctioned by a professional disciplinary panel, it has emerged. In results published last Wednesday (26 June), a disciplinary panel for the CIC…

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Contractor fined after delivery driver electrocuted by powerline

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:32:34 +0000

A Reading-based contractor has been fined £30,000 after the death of a delivery driver. Father of four Levi Alleyne, known as Chunky, was electrocuted while delivering crushed concrete to a construction site where BBM Contracts was principal contractor. He died after the crane arm of…

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