London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority v Halcrow Gilbert Associates Ltd & Ors

Marina Samountry compares the ongoing fire safety and cladding issues in the UK and the “leaky building” issues in New Zealand, looking closely at the consequences of these issues and lessons learned.

Failure by a party to pay its share of an advance on arbitration costs may amount to a breach of the arbitration agreement, but it will not necessarily be repudiatory. Where the applicable arbitral rules provide mechanisms to allow the arbitration to proceed, non‑payment alone is unlikely to render the arbitration agreement inoperative.