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In international arbitration, winning your case is only half the battle. The harder part is often getting the money.

In April 2013, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) published a contract for use with complex projects (known as the Complex Projects Contract or CPC 2013).

The contractor, CR, sought an interim injunction against the bank, which would restrain it from making any payment to the employer, Northern Gateway, pursuant to a demand made by Northern Gateway...

As Karen Gidwani explains fitness for purpose is a phrase often used in everyday language in relation to a service or a product that is not working as expected or desired. In construction contracts, however, the concept of fitness for purpose has its own body of case law and analysis, and the effect of including a fitness for purpose clause in a construction contract can be draconian.

Termination is a serious step and is never one to be taken lightly. It is important that determination provisions are followed precisely.

The results of the Sixth CEDR Mediation Audit show that the UK mediation market has grown by 9% in the last year. The current size of the civil and commercial mediation market is estimated as being in the order of 9,500 cases per annum.

Arbitration as a means of resolving disputes has deep roots in the Islamic legal traditions.

Parent company guarantees are a common feature of construction and engineering projects.

The English High Court set aside a fraudulent multimillion-pound Kuwaiti arbitration award and judgment, finding no arbitration agreement existed and the award was fabricated. This underscores the court's diligence in verifying the authenticity of arbitration documents.

The recent Court of Appeal case of Wuhan Guoyu Logistics Group Co Limited & Others v Emporiki Bank of Greece SA [2012] EWCA Civ 1629 confirmed the first instance decision of the Commercial Court in Wuhan Guoyu Logistics Group Co Limited & Others v Emporiki Bank of Greece SA [2012] EWHC 1715 (Comm) that a security document was a guarantee rather than an on-demand bond.

When can a contractor prevent a beneficiary from calling on an On Demand Bond? Recent case law has struggled to reconcile two competing legal principles: the traditional fraud exception and contractual restrictions on making calls. A 2026 judgment clarifies the threshold required to obtain an injunction against bond calls.

In the case of "Witney Town Council v Beam Construction (Cheltenham) Ltd" [2011] EWHC 2332 (TCC), Mr Justice Akenhead had to consider whether more than one dispute had been referred to adjudication. If that was the position, then the adjudicator’s decision could not be enforced.

Side letters are often used by parties (i) in place of formal contracts, (ii) to provide assurance in relation to future contracts and (iii) to document any last-minute changes to contracts.

The recent case of Autoridad del Canal de Panamá v Sacyr S.A. and others [2017] EWHC 2228 (Comm) demonstrates (i) the importance of consistency in the drafting of surety instruments...

No matter how forcefully lawyers may counsel against them, letters of intent have an established position in the commercial and administrative landscape of the construction industry in the United Kingdom.

Anyone who has ever read a construction contract, or been involved in a construction project, will know that notices play a big part in the success of a project.

An On Demand Bond is as an unconditional undertaking to pay a specified amount to a named beneficiary, usually on demand and sometimes on the presentation of certain specified documents.