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Rethinking Private Nuisance in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Analysis of Coventry v Lawrence

Paul Singh

August 2015

A paper based on the highly commended entry in the Hudson Prize essay competition 2014

In 2014, in Coventry v Lawrence (No 1), the Supreme Court was given an opportunity to review some important aspects of the law of private nuisance: how easements may arise by prescription, noise as a specific version of nuisance, the remedies available (damages or injunction?) and the relationship of what is in effect a part of land law to the public law of land use planning. The outcome sets the law on a new course in several directions.

Building Information Modelling: The Legal Frontier – Overcoming Legal and Contractual Obstacles

May Winfield

January 2015

A paper based on the highly commended entry in the Hudson Prize essay competition 2014

Driven by the Government’s 2011 Construction Strategy requirement for the industry to move towards BIM, its implementation is gathering pace and throws up a host of interesting legal challenges. May Winfield’s paper seeks to set out a contractual framework or checklist of contract terms for use in any BIM-enabled project.

NEC Contracts: Programming, Project Management and Pricing – Have they stood the test of time?

Nicholas Gould

January 2015

A paper presented to the Annual Update of the Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution, King’s College London, on 4th September 2014

Touching briefly on the Latham Report, Nicholas Gould’s paper then introduces the New Engineering Contract (NEC) generally, before focusing on the distinctive aspects of NEC3: project management, programming, pricing, compensation events and the time bar, assessing compensation and disputes.

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