"Identifying and managing your legal expectations to avoid pitfalls in an increasingly demanding project role"

July 2011

In this paper, Nicholas Gould reviews professional liability with a particular emphasis on modern project management practice. In reality, this means a traditional form of forward thinking construction professionals (quantity surveyors, now commercial cost managers, or some other derivation, building surveyors, architects, engineers) that have expanded into the area of project management and those acting as employer’s agents (there are of course those who have qualified as project managers (PM) or taken a masters degrees in the subject).

"Project security & guarantees"

May 2011

"Question time"

October 2006

Victoria Russell and David Bebb in a question time session with clients deal with a number of issues ranging from explaining what is meant by economic duress or an act of prevention to explaining what grounds are available to terminate a consultant's appointment without being countersued. If you are interested in arranging a similar session, please do not hesitate to contact them.

"Gagged development = stunted growth = stagnation"

November 2009

Simon Tolson, in an article prepared for the ICES Journal looks at the planning, conservation approval and listed building consent processes.

Construction Law Update Paper

9 March 2007

Earlier articles - in HTML format

Getting paid - How to ensure prompt payment from your clients and what to do when they cannot pay
6 November 2003