Legal
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Bouygues UK Ltd v Dahl-Jensen UK Ltd (CIP) - Legal
26 August 2010
(TCC) [2000] BLR49 Construction Contracts - Adjudication - Jurisdiction - Adjudicator's error - Answering the right question in the wrong way - Retention - Valuation of Works - Liquidation...
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RICS: Discovering property policy: an examination of Scottish Executive policy and the property sector - Legal
09 July 2010
This report, by a team led by David Adams at the University of Glasgow and funded by the RICS Education Trust, assessed how the Scottish Executive considers property...
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Pierce Design v International Ltd v Mark Johnston & another (CIP) - Legal
15 June 2010
[2007] Adj.L.R. 07/17, [2007] EWHC 1691 (TCC) Contract - construction contract - interim payments - withholding notices - sums due under the contract - determination - whether, in the...
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Melville Dundas Ltd (in receivership) v George Wimpey UK Ltd (CIP) - Legal
15 June 2010
[2005] CSIH88, [2005] ADR.L.R. 12/15 - Contract - construction contract - payment - interim payments - withholding notices - insolvency -whether a party was entitled to withhold payment in...
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Rupert Morgan Building Services (LLC) Ltd v Jervis (David) and Jervis (Harriet) [CA] (CIP) - Legal
15 June 2010
[2003] EWCA Civ 1563, [2004] BLR 18 - Contract - construction contracts - certification of a sum - payment - withholding notices - whether certification of a sum made...
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Clark Contracts v The Burrell Co (CIP) - Legal
15 June 2010
[2002] Adj.L.R. 01/31 - Contract - construction contract - interim certificates - interim payment - whether there was an entitlement to a sum due under the contract where a...
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