"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

"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

"The Defective Premises Act 1972"

November 2011

Peter Collie, in a paper given at the latest Fenwick Elliott Construction Law Update Seminar, reviews the Defective Premises Act looking at what damages are recoverable under the Act, specifically focusing on claims for loss of rent.