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Tue, 2nd February 2010
A £24 Billion Pound Secret
Not many people are aware of a quite frightening business secret. Believe it or not - the estimated annual cost of conflict in the workplace to the UK economy is a staggering £24 billion pounds!!
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Thu, 14th January 2010
TVP Launches Vindemnity insurance product
The Vinden Partnership (TVP), a leading North West property consultancy, has launched Vindemnity a unique insurance product for the construction industry following the appointment of Steve Padley.
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Tue, 1st September 2009
Difficult Conversations, Hostage Negotiation and Mediation
If you want to know the meaning of pressure, try negotiating with a hostage taker whose demands are extremely unreasonable and whose motivations are political, racial or based on religious beliefs when a person's life is on the line - then you will really experience what it is to have a difficult conversation!
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Sat, 29th August 2009
What is Mediation?
The process of Mediation is one of the most common forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution, or ADR. The 'Alternative' referred to is the alternative to a trial and process leading up to trial.
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Mon, 13th July 2009
Sharing Pain and Gain – No Win No Fee Adjudication Services
Given the current economic circumstances it is hardly surprising that Vinden’s Dispute and Corporate Recovery teams are expanding rapidly. Peter Vinden, Vinden’s Managing Director, says this is down to a number of factors.
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Wed, 8th July 2009
Difficult Conversations, Hostage Negotiation and Mediation (01)
North West Mediator, Peter Vinden, talks about using his hostage negotiation training in mediation.
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Thu, 25th June 2009
Common Sense Advice for House Builders
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has set ambitious targets for the provision of three million new homes by 2020. Sixty percent of these homes are targeted to be built on brownfield land and by 2016 all new homes in England and Wales are to be ‘Zero Carbon’.
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Tue, 5th May 2009
Multitasking key to beating recession
Quantity surveyors (QS) are facing an increasing need to multitask to beat the recession and keep building their business, according to experts at the Vinden Partnership.
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Tue, 7th April 2009
Adjudicators, Jurisdiction and Fees
I recently issued my 100th Adjudicator’s Decision. Whilst this may have been a personal landmark, there were no cakes, no candles or any other celebrations for that matter. Just a little bit of quiet reflection and an intake of breath before diving into the next case in line.
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Mon, 6th April 2009
Latent Defects, Trumpets and Insurance
I have heard it said on many occasions that it is never a good thing to “blow one’s own trumpet” but on this occasion, however, I just can’t resist. The reason for lifting my head above the parapets is to announce that those clever boys and girls in our insurance department have just come up with a rather useful new form of insurance policy which could soon be in great demand.
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Mon, 6th April 2009
Insolvency in Construction, CVAs and Adjudication
My firm, The Vinden Partnership (“TVP”) spends a lot of its time advising Directors, Banks and Insolvency Practitioners on the best way to restructure and/or recover businesses involved in the construction supply chain. We have been doing this since TVP’s inception in 1994. It is true to say that over the last 15 years I can remember the Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs) I have been involved in on less than the fingers of one hand! However, for reasons that I am hopefully about to explain, things may be about to change.
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Fri, 13th March 2009
Compulsory mediation?
Anybody reading this article who has been involved in a construction dispute will know that it can be an expensive business. Lawyers do not wear nice suits because they are cheap to hire!
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Wed, 21st January 2009
Chaired Solutions - A new kid on the block?
I attend a lot of settlement meetings with clients. These are invariably conducted on a “without prejudice” basis and the purpose of such a meeting is both simple and given away by its title.
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Thu, 27th November 2008
Getting caught between a rock and a hard place
Let’s face facts. Things are getting pretty tough out there and being a director of any company operating in the construction sector at present is not for the faint hearted. Rising costs and too many companies chasing too few orders leads to one thing only – reduced margins and losses!
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Tue, 30th September 2008
Cowgill Holloway advises on TVP merger
Cowgill Holloway’s corporate finance department has advised on the merger of The Vinden Partnership Ltd and Watson Laurie Group, a group of companies controlled by Andrew Crompton.
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Wed, 24th September 2008
Scheme Interest and the Late Payment of Commercial Debts
My last article dealt with the subject of an Adjudicator’s power to award interest under the Scheme for Construction Contracts (England and Wales) Regulations 1998 (“the Scheme”). The article concluded by saying that where a contract has no provisions relating to the payment of interest, an Adjudicator has no “freestanding power” to award interest.
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Wed, 24th September 2008
Claiming Interest under the Scheme
If you have ever found yourself in an adjudication the chances are that either you or your opposing party will have asked the Adjudicator to decide that interest is paid on overdue payments.
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Tue, 23rd September 2008
Getting Wound Up!
As I write this month’s article I am feeling pretty annoyed by one of our clients. I won’t bore you with the details. Suffice to say that we have conducted several adjudications for this particular client over the last year with considerable success.
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Fri, 8th August 2008
Dear Darling.....
This article is normally devoted to matters of a legal nature but this month I feel compelled to depart from the norm in the hope that somebody from our current government may stumble across it and have a word in the ear of our Darling Chancellor.
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Wed, 25th June 2008
Time for a makeover?
1 May 2008 was the 10 year or tin, if you prefer, anniversary for the starting date for the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. What a mouthful. I still can’t get my head around the title and prefer to call it the Construction Act along with the thousands of us who work in this wonderful industry.
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