Expert property lawyers are advising developers to act on cladding issues now to avoid the risk of paying out millions of pounds. Dangerous, combustible cladding has been top of the agenda for developers since the Grenfell Tower fire in [read more…]
It is well known that the UK construction and civil engineering industries have the highest incidence of disputes… many of which arise from payment issues. Throw a pandemic into the mix, increased construction delays, non-payment, [read more…]
Recent changes in law now allow insolvent construction companies to adjudicate in order to recover debts. Here construction industry law experts, Arbicon, provide some clarity to the situation. Construction firms have since time immemorial been [read more…]
It is vital the construction industry educates itself on competition law – according to East Midlands-based law firm Nelsons. The warning comes after two of the UK’s largest rolled lead sheet suppliers – Associated Leads [read more…]
Firms are being urged to promote better internal governance and assurance and to take steps to ensure their businesses are more risk averse following an analysis of the collapse of construction giant Carillion and the [read more…]
Philip Munn, RSM VAT partner, explains how construction faces a perfect storm of VAT issues on 1st October unless HMRC responds to calls from the industry and RSM. The domestic reverse charge for the Construction [read more…]
Businesses that provide construction services are urged to make themselves aware of changes to the way VAT is charged prior to the introduction of reverse VAT charging later this year. Changes to VAT charging are [read more…]
Rebecca Palmer, Senior Associate in Prettys’ construction team, gives her insights into how a lawyer can become an integral part of the toolkit of construction businesses of every tier of the supply chain. The construction [read more…]
The CMA has provisionally found that three drainage product manufacturers broke competition law by coordinating prices for customers and sharing the market. Two of the businesses – Derbyshire-based Stanton Bonna Concrete Ltd and Somerset-based CPM [read more…]
Matthew Weitz, Associate Managing Director, Kroll and Michael Milton, Director, Kroll, take an in-depth look at how fraud is adversely affecting the UK construction sector and suggest ways to avoid the issue. In recent years, [read more…]
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