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The magazine was first published as Labour News on 30 August 1871, under founder, Victorian reformer Alsager Hay Hill, aimed at tackling unemployment by printing information about job vacancies. It was first published under its current name during the 1960s.
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Hazel Cox is an associate and Fraser Askham is a partner at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang The Court of Appeal has considered a joint-names insurance policy taken out by an employer that was expressed to provide cover greater than required by the building contract. In FM Conway Limited v…
Mark London is a partner at law firm Devonshires In June 2022, the Building Safety Act (BSA) introduced several new remedies for those who wish to either recover the cost of remediating buildings or to compel a landlord to remediate the building. These new remedies ranged from extending the period…
Neil Boothroyd is an adjudicator, arbitrator and mediator at consultancy Gateley Vinden The Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) enforces the importance of better industry practices – including the accurate recording and storage of building-safety information – following the tragic Grenfell Tower fire of 2017. To regulate standards, the BSA has…
Rudi Klein is a barrister and former chief executive of the Specialist Engineering Contractors' Group Ten years after the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) was formed, it’s yet to hit any of its original targets – and it looks unlikely to get anywhere near them by its 2025 deadline “Construction in…
Francesco Albanese is a trainee solicitor and Lucy Hawley is an associate at law firm BCLP Betterment has rarely been advanced as a defence in English courts until now, post-Grenfell, with the advent of building-safety defect claims. This article takes a closer look at this principle. “Betterment claims are notoriously…
Farshid Bonakdar is principal engineering consultant at Materials and Structures, an RSK Group company The construction industry has long been grappling with the carbon footprint of, and its dependence on, Portland cement. Various solutions have been proposed with new construction methods and materials, and while innovation is crucially needed, a…
Patrick Duggan is a senior associate at law firm RWK Goodman Time in legal proceedings is a complex concept. The calculation of how and when to do something may be different depending on whether you are in court, arbitration or adjudication. But help is at hand, with some clarity on…
Chris Bowes (pictured above, left) and Matthew Taylor are partners at law firm CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang The decision of the secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities to refuse planning permission for the demolition and rebuilding of Marks & Spencer’s western Oxford Street store was met…
Eric Johnstone is a senior associate at Brodies LLP Solicitors Of course, Bob Dylan wasn’t referring to limitation periods in his 1964 hit, but the title of the song very much reflects the position in the construction industry following the Building Safety Act (BSA) and the changes made to the Defective…
Lucila Porthe is a BREEAM assessor and a senior sustainability consultant at property and construction consultancy McBains The consultation by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) on the new BREEAM update – the first modular update of its kind across multiple BREEAM schemes, introducing improved energy and carbon science across new…
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