October's issue of Insight considers some of the key areas of difficulty with the NEC form and makes suggestions as to how NEC3 might be amended to overcome them from the contractor’s perspective.
Insight
Insight is our newsletter which provides practical information on topical issues affecting the building, engineering and energy sectors.
February 2026
February’s Insight provides a comprehensive guide to “smash and grab” adjudications (or “Payment Notice Dispute” adjudications). In this issue, Claire King and Laura Bowler outline the basics that give rise to the right to require payment of the notified sum, consider recent case law from the courts, and provide practical tips to help employers and contractors avoid being on the receiving end of a smash and grab adjudication.
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Previous issues
Click to download PDFSeptember 2014
September's issue of Insight reviews the rules by which experts should abide in relation to the preparation of their reports and the giving of their evidence; considers recent developments in light of the Jackson Reforms; and provides practical pointers on how to make expert evidence effective.
August 2014
August's issue of Insight looks at some interesting decisions relating to; attempts to overturn an Adjudicator’s decision on the merits; the date from which time starts to run for limitation purposes to contest an Adjudicator’s decision under a Scheme adjudication; and finally the documents that might constitute contracts for construction operations under Part II of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996.
July 2014
July's issue of Insight considers the Court of Appeal’s latest approach to relief from sanctions and provides practical advice to both defaulting and non-defaulting parties on how litigation practice should be altered to avoid falling foul of the new rules.
June 2014
June's issue of Insight considers bonds and guarantees, and three recent decisions in this area that warrant an update.
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