Delay and Disruption: Legal Considerations

Stuart C Nash

August 2002

A paper based on a talk given to a meeting of the Society of Construction Law in Manchester on 16th April 2002.

Legal considerations of the Society of Construction Law's draft Protocol for Determining Extensions of Time and Compensation for Delay and Disruption, Version for Workshop, May 2002; how the Protocol has dealt with existing UK law and taken on board concepts from US law.

Genesis of the Protocol - eoccurring questions - Programme - ecords - Procedure for granting EOT - Time impact analysis - Float - Concurrent delay - Mitigation/acceleration - Calculation of compensation for prolongation - Global claims - Disruption.

The author: Stuart C Nash is a solicitor in the construction unit of KLegal in London, having worked with Kilcullen, Wilson and Kilcullen in the United States.

Text 11 pages.

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