Legal issues and construction law

Construction claims over sinkholes and landslips are on the rise

2025-05-08T06:00:00+01:00By Giles Tagg and Alessandro Morgan-Gianni

As geological risks increase, driven by climate change, claims relating to geotechnical impacts on construction projects may become more common

The Procurement Act is here 鈥� what does it mean for the construction industry?

2025-04-30T06:00:00+01:00By Colin Jones and Stewart Morrison

Colin Jones and Stewart Morrison explain what the new legislation means for the construction industry

Get your clause into it 鈥� contractual responsibility for specific risks

2025-04-24T06:00:00+01:00By Tony Bingham

Tony Bingham on a case concerning contractual responsibility for specific risks, and the attempts to locate that amid amendments

Implementing the 性吧电台 Safety Act in Wales

2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00By Helen Johnson and Katie Rider

Helen Johnson and Katie Rider on how the 性吧电台 Safety Act applies differently for Welsh buildings

A deal with too many moth holes

2025-03-17T06:00:00+00:00By Tony Bingham

A vendor who fails to answer the pre-contract questionnaire honestly can find the whole house sale reversed

How landmark building safety court rulings could clarify the law on liability

2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00By Theresa Mohammed

Landmark rulings on defects, remediation and聽building safety could clarify the law around liability and remedy

The government鈥檚 Remediation Action Plan explained

2025-02-14T07:00:00+00:00By Catherine Gelder and Frances Gordon-Weeks

Catherine Gelder and Frances Gordon-Weeks on the government鈥檚 plan to resolve building safety delays

Let鈥檚 sort out the payment rules

2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00By Tony Bingham

The recent ruling in Placefirst vs CAR highlights the聽ongoing confusion around the payment and pay-less rules

It鈥檚 time to shake up adjudication

2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00By Tony Bingham

Poor decisions, low competence, bias 鈥� adjudication has got itself into a mess. So, what鈥檚 to be done? Tony Bingham has the answers

Construction law in 2025: what can we expect in the year ahead?

2025-01-24T07:00:00+00:00By Sheena Sood

Sheena Sood sets out what to expect in the year ahead for construction law, including a variety of regulatory changes

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Simon Tolson to stand down as Fenwick Elliott senior partner

2024-06-13T09:52:00+01:00By Carl Brown

Prominent lawyer steps back after 23 years at the helm

Trio of partners appointed by construction law firm Fenwick Elliott

2023-09-11T10:39:00+01:00

Senior associates promoted in London and Dubai

SNC-Lavalin arm pleads guilty to Libya fraud

2019-12-20T06:00:00+00:00By Jordan Marshall

Subsidiary of Canadian firm which owns Atkins fined more than 拢160m

Number of High Court disputes jumps again

2019-12-06T06:00:00+00:00By Tom Lowe

Carillion collapse blamed as annual figure heads towards 400 mark

Camden council makes 拢130m High Court claim against tower block contractors

2019-12-02T06:00:00+00:00By Alice Lorenzato-Lloyd

Legal action centres on Chalcots Estate evacuation in June 2017

Willmott Dixon and Hackney row over defects on resi block

2019-09-04T05:00:00+01:00By Hamish Champ

Contractor鈥檚 housing arm Willmott Partnership Homes disputes 鈥榤any鈥櫬爋f council鈥檚 claims

Second law firm begins action over Lendlease share fall

2019-08-13T05:00:00+01:00By Dave Rogers and Jordan Marshall

Price plunge triggered by woes at engineering business

HS2 faces crunch ruling on Old Oak Common start date

2019-07-18T05:00:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall

Railway will hear in September whether challenge by Bechtel will stop it awarding job to Balfour Beatty team

Heathrow beats challenge against third runway

2019-05-01T11:47:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall

Twenty-one of the 26 claims were deemed to be unarguable

HS2 procurement blunders have cost us 拢100m, Bechtel says

2019-04-25T05:00:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall1 comments

US giant goes to court after 拢1.1bn Old Oak station job awarded to Balfour Beatty team

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The coronavirus crisis: What does it all mean?

2020-03-18T06:00:00+00:00By Dave Rogers, Yolande Barnes and Simon Tolson

The implications of covid-19 for construction, housing and legal

Brexit and construction law: Changing times

2017-06-23T06:00:00+01:00By Al Watson, Jill Carey and Clare Harman-Clark

One year on from the EU referendum, nobody knows how a post-Brexit world will look

Interview: Richard Saxon

2016-08-04T06:00:00+01:00By Francis Ho

Richard Saxon, chair of the Joint Contracts Tribunal, speaks to 性吧电台 legal columnist Francis Ho about new kinds of contracts, the competition, and where he thinks the industry is heading

Crossing the line

2015-08-28T07:00:00+01:00By Roxane McMeeken

With the Calais crisis still a hot media topic, the government is on the warpath against construction companies employing illegal workers. But is the sector doing enough to make sure it doesn鈥檛 get caught out?

Procurement on trial

2014-08-22T06:00:00+01:00By Joey Gardiner1 comments

Construction firms are increasingly emboldened to take the government to court over its procurement decisions, but who鈥檚 to blame?

Museum of Liverpool: Nightmare at the museum

2013-08-08T00:00:00+01:00By Joey Gardiner

The 拢72m Museum of Liverpool may have opened in 2011, but problems with the design and build mean parts of the iconic building are still inaccessible to the public. Last week鈥檚拢1.13m court judgment highlights the dangers for small consultants on big projects

Insurance special report: BIM

2012-10-26T00:00:00+01:00By Roxane McMeeken

The rise of collaboration software has created a lot of questions for insurers - not least how to divide up and assign blame if anything goes wrong

Costly legal disputes: Everyone's a loser

2012-06-15T00:00:00+01:00By Emily Wright

The amount spent on legal disputes has jumped by a third in the UK over the past year. Why are construction firms still so keen to spend on litigation?

Sparks fly: The row over electricians' wage agreements

2012-01-04T10:30:00+00:00By Iain Withers

The decision of seven major M&E contractors to break away from the 40-year-old JIB wage agreement was prompted by an 鈥榰rgent need to modernise鈥� but has already led to angry clashes between workers and police. 性吧电台 reports on a row that threatens to become the sector鈥檚 biggest industrial relations dispute ...

Hackney Empire vs Aviva Insurance: The Empire strikes back

2011-07-15T00:00:00+01:00By Iain Withers

This is the tale of a theatre project, backed by Lord Sugar, that landed its client with a 拢3.2m headache. Now eight years on there鈥檚 a legal battle over a bond between the insurer and the theatre owner

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