UK
The designer's duty - Time for review
Alexander Nissen QC
December 2008
A paper presented to a meeting of the Society of Construction Law in London on 4th November 2008.
Compound Interest and Financing Claims: The 'Sempra Metals' Revolution
Judge Anthony Thornton QC
October 2008
A paper based on a talk given to the Society of Construction Law in London on 5th February 2008.
Payment under the Construction Act: Current Case Law
Nicholas Gould
October 2008
A paper presented to the Centre of Construction Law and Society of Construction Law conference at King's College London on 11th September 2008.
Nicholas Gould
October 2008
A paper presented to the Centre of Construction Law and Society of Construction Law conference at King's College London on 11th September 2008.
Catching Water in a Net: The Elusive Concept of 'A Reasonable Settlement'
Judge Peter Coulson QC
September 2008
A paper presented to a joint meeting of the Technology and Construction Bar Association and the Society of Construction Law in London on 30th October 2007.
The Right Law for Construction? Choice of Law: Rome I and Rome II
Philip Britton
August 2008
A paper derived from the eighth Michael Brown Lecture, given to the Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution, King's College London, on 6th September 2007.
Proportionate Liability: Reform or Regression?
Professor Doug Jones
July 2008
A paper based on the seventh Michael Brown Lecture, given to the Centre of Construction Law, King's College London, on 7th September 2006.
Ethics: The SCL approach and the wider context
Peter Higgins and Philip Britton
July 2008
A paper based on presentations to a meeting of the Society of Construction Law in London on 4th September 2007.
Peter Higgins and Philip Britton
July 2008
A paper based on presentations to a meeting of the Society of Construction Law in London on 4th September 2007.
The Duty to Disclose: A clash of law and morality
Shy Jackson May 2008 A paper based on the Commended entry in the Hudson Prize essay competition 2007. English law seldom imposes a duty to disclose information: in construction, should duties to disclose be imposed or recognised more widely? Shy Jackson considers the boundary between ethical and legal duties and the implications for construction of wider duties to disclose or inform. Introduction - Present law on disclosure - The exceptions to the rule - Construction: practical questions - The ethical dimension - Conclusions. Shy Jackson May 2008
The Value is Whatever I Say It Is: Determinations by the principal under construction contracts
Trevor Thomas May 2008 A paper based on the Highly Commended entry in the Hudson Prize essay competition 2007. When a construction employer, or his representative, is given power to make determinations affecting the rights of the other party to the contract to payment, under what circumstances will (or should) those determinations, in the form of certificates, definitively determine the rights of the parties? Trevor Thomas revisits that well-known debate from a perspective which contrasts the evolution of English law with recent case law developments in Australia. Trevor Thomas