Nicholas Gould, in a paper given to the IBA Conference on “Construction Projects from Conception to Completion” held in Brussels, considers some of the legal issues arising from the execution of a project in relation to delay and disruption. The paper considers the need to prove cause and effect, float, concurrency, dominant cause, proximate cause and apportionment. In addition, the paper discusses change management – one of the key building blocks of the Society of Construction Law’s delay and disruption protocol.
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.