"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).

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"Project security & guarantees"

May 2011

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"Case study: Equiano Centre, Sierra Leone"

November 2009

Jeremy Glover, in a paper given at the latest Fenwick Elliott Capital Projects in the Education Sector Seminar, discusses the work being done by CODEP, in relation to the construction of a new learning and literary resource centre in Waterloo, Sierra Leone.

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"Managing disputes: is adjudication the best or only way?"

23 April 2007

Jeremy Glover, in a paper prepared for the 13 th Adjudication Update Seminar, considers the different ways in which disputes can be managed and thereby avoided. The paper includes a discussion about how the NEC form of contract has adopted a form of early warning procedure designed to help minimise actual disputes and also looks at some of the alternatives to statutory adjudication including Project Mediation and the Adjudication Board.

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"Discussion points on the Disability Discrimination Act"

August 2004

In a paper prepared for construction programme Video TEN (the Einstein Network), Simon Tolson considers the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act and, in particular, looks at the steps which need to be taken from 1 October 2004 to ensure that premises comply with that legislation, the aim of which is to curb discrimination against disabled people in their access to the provision of services and employment. The paper includes practical advice on compliance.

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"The interventionist Judge"

7 May 2010

Simon Tolson in an article first published in Building considers the crucial role judges can play in litigation, focussing on the decision of Mr Justice Coulson in the Brookfield v Mott MacDonald case

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