1 October 2015 ushers in a number of legal changes which affect construction businesses operating in the UK.

A round-up of recent Construction industry updates.

See “YCMS v Grabiner” under Keating Chambers Reported Cases on exceeding slip rule by recalculation, invalidating adjudicator’s decision.

Round-up of recent cases.

Following a dispute between them, the Caliph of the Muslims and an ordinary man chose to have their differences determined by an arbitrator and went to see him. When they arrived, the arbitrator, very astonished, came to greet them and asked the Caliph why he had not requested him to come to the Caliph, instead of the Caliph coming to him.

A round of building/construction and properly case law updates by Keating Chambers over the past month.

Overview of June 2005 Case Law Reviews.

When building or engineering contracts fall into delay it is often asserted by one party or the other that there are concurrent causes of this delay. It is easy to see why this is so.

This article was originally given as a lecture to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Thames Valley Branch, 10th March 2005.

In a dispute over professional fees which the claimant surveyors referred to adjudication, the respondent client submitted that there was no adjudication agreement and that the adjudicator had no jurisdiction.

Construction Act Review by Peter Sheridan, Sheridan Gold comprises a Slip Rule Update, reviewing recent case law, notably YCMS v Grabiner (Gaynor Chambers) and O’Donnell Development v Build Ability (Stephen Furst QC).

A sub-contractor failed to obtain summary judgment to enforce an adjudicator’s decision, since the court could not summarily resolve the issues as to whether there was an oral agreement for the design which would not comply with s.107 HGCR Act.

This article covers the following issues: Adjudication Round-up: key decisions and developments 2004-2006; Areas of challenge of adjudication decisions: jurisdiction; Areas of challenge of adjudication decisions: natural justice.

A dispute over professional fees which the claimant surveyors referred to adjudication, the respondent client submitted that there was no adjudication agreement and that the adjudicator had no jurisdiction.

For well over a hundred years it has been standard practice for contract administrators to be used on construction contracts. Architects have been engaged to supervise and manage building contracts and engineers engineering contracts. More recently, project managers and construction managers have undertaken similar roles under new forms of contract.

This paper considers whether there are rights and obligations attaching to parties involved in a purely private tendering process. Surprisingly there appears to be no direct authority on this point, all case law to date having arisen in the context of contract procurement by public bodies.

Makers UK Ltd v Camden London Borough Council [2008] BLR 470 TCC Already reported in CILL, Camden sought to challenge the adjudicator's decision on the ground that he had been improperly appointed by RIBA.

A round up of recent case law updates.

An insight on the termination for convenience clauses and their capacity in different jurisdictions.

The authors provide their 8th Annual review of the existing body of HGCR Act Case Law. It contains an alphabetical list of nearly 320 cases (if one includes appeals and a few relevant non-Act cases).