November’s Insight highlights key amendments made in the JCT Design and Build Contract 2016.
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
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October’s Insight highlights the importance of understanding your BIM obligations.
September 2016
September’s Insight reviews terminating for failure to proceed regularly and diligently.
August 2016
August 2016's issue of Insight examines the role of Defined Costs and Disallowed Costs in the NEC3 Target Cost Contracts.
July 2016
July 2016's issue of Insight examines the major changes to the insurance legislation which come into effect in August 2016.
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