Matthew Needham-Laing, in a paper given at the Fenwick Elliott seminar Capital Projects in the Education Sector, provides a brief summary of the existing public procurement regulations and introduces the new European directive that will replace them. In doing so, he identifies the new provisions that will alter existing practice and those provisions that are merely for clarification purposes and can be adopted by public authorities.
Victoria Russell provided a case law update paper and talk to the members of the South East branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators discussing the most recent decisions relating to adjudication enforcement and arbitration.