Our collective thoughts

Posted February 27, 2020 | Published in Dispute resolution

The gardening gloves are off: Mr and Mrs Burgess punished with indemnity costs order for pursuing “speculative and weak” claims against former friend Mrs Lejonvarn [1]

George Boddy reviews the decision in the most recent instalment of Lejonvarn v Burgess.

Insiders: FE’s Forum for In-house Construction Counsel [3]

Lucinda Robinson reviews our new forum Insiders, dedicated to in-house counsel within the construction industry.

Settle Down! Then write it down … clearly! [5]

Lucinda Robinson discusses the importance of written documents for recording commercial deals accurately and tells us what parties can do to capture full and clear settlement terms when they are short of time, under pressure and short on answers.

Seminar round-up: design, drones and data [6]

Mark Pantry reviews last week’s digital technology seminar.

Investing in infrastructure – Europe’s External Investment Plan two years on [8]

Robbie McCrea looks back on the last two years of the EU’s External Investment Plan (“EIP”), discussing the plans progression and considers the extent to which the plan has been a success.

No sign off? No worries: the meaning of “sign off” and payment milestones in construction contracts [10]

Jesse Way considers the meaning of “sign off” and payment milestones.

The Court takes a knife to the adjudicator’s decision in Corebuild v Cleaver and chops down the decision in Willow v MTD [11]

George Boddy considers two recent adjudication enforcement cases.