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Statutory Adjudication

Statutory adjudication for construction dispute resolution. Call 0845 504 9733 for immediate assistance and advice with resolving your construction dispute. The Vinden Partnership Manchester Bolton Nottingham London.

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For immediate professional construction dispute assistance call 0845 504 9733 for an objective case appraisal. Construction Dispute Management Bolton, Nottingham, London, Manchester

Ballast plc V The Burrell Company (Construction Management) Limited - Part II

Adjudicator guilty of an error of law by having refused to decide the dispute referred to him on the grounds of the contract's lack of clarity and of the parties' failure to follow what the adjudicator termed 2the strict contractual code"

Management Solutions & Professional Consultants Ltd V Bennett (Electrical) Services Ltd

The effect of the oral instructions which varied or increased the scope of the sub-sub-contract works was not to remove the sub-sub-contract from the scope of section 107 of the Construction Act

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The Vinden Partnership (TVP) specialises in dispute management, financial services, construction project management and quantity surveying.

Mediation Services

our mediation services help you achieve settlement of your dispute without invoking formal legal proceedings. Find out how - call 0845 504 9733. The Vinden Partnership.

Case Presentation and Dispute Settlement

Professional case presentation in dispute settlement negotiations can avoid legal proceedings. Find out how - call us on 0845 504 9733.

Litigation Support

Negotiations failed? Call 0845 504 9733 now for construction dispute litigation support advice.

Arbitration

Call 0845 504 9733 for immediate assistance and advice with resolving your construction dispute by arbitration.

South West Contractors Ltd v Birakos Enterprises Ltd

The adjudicator was not in breach of the rules of natural justice by allegedly having failed to consider its case that the project manager's loss should have been mitigated on the basis that the court should not minutely examine an award to he had made such a mistake

Collins (Contractors) Ltd v Baltic Quay Management (1994) Ltd

The propositions advanced by Jackson J in Amec Civil Engineering v The Secretary of State for the Environment (2004) should be accepted and, in particular, the proposition that whilst the mere making of a claim did not amount to a dispute, a dispute would be held to exist once it could reasonably be inferred that a claim was not admitted

Primus Build Limited v Pompey Centre Limited

The adjudicator’s decision should not be enforced on the grounds that the adjudicator acted without jurisdiction and in breach of the rules of natural justice by calculating the construction manager’s loss of profits based on an approach which neither party had raised before him

Cantillon Ltd v Urvasco Ltd

Akenhead J in this case reviewed the caselaw on what constitutes "a dispute" for adjudication and arbitration purposes. In particular he considered the statements of Judge LLoyd in KNS Industrial Services (Birmingham) Ltd -v- Sindall Ltd (2001), the Court of Appeal's decisions in Collins (Contractors) v Baltic Quay Management (2004) and Amec Civil Engineering v Secretary of State for Transport (2005).

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Insolvency - A Growth Industry

As the subprime crisis in America sweeps across the Atlantic causing a significant credit squeeze in the UK, one of the first sectors in the firing line is construction. Construction across the UK appears to have fallen victim to the economic uncertainty that exists and latest figures show the sector shrinking for the first time in more than six years.

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Universal Music Operations Limited -v- Flairnote Limited & Others

The building contract was entered into between the employer and the contractor, and not between the project manager and the contractor

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.

Maxi Construction Management Ltd -v- Mortons Rolls Ltd

The contractor?s ?interim valuation? document did not constitute an interim payment application under the contract and was instead a request for agreement of the valuation under the contract as a preliminary to the subsequent making of a payment application

TVP is Construction Firm of the Year

Bolton-based construction adviser, The Vinden Partnership (TVP), has been named Construction Firm of the Year in the Lancashire Business View Red Rose Awards, established to recognise successful and innovative companies from the region.

Avoiding Developer Disaster

It never ceases to amaze me how small our world is becoming. Who would have thought events in the American sub-prime mortgage market would have such an effect on our UK banking sector? When was the last time you heard of a run on a UK bank? Am I dreaming? And, what does this actually mean for the UK construction sector?

Construction Act Seminars

The Local Democracy, Economic Development & Construction Act 2009 comes in to effect from 1 October 2011. Are you up to date with the changes?

Improving an Old Friend

By the time the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 ("Construction Act 2009") comes into force on 1 October 2011, 4,901 days will have passed from the implementation of its forerunner, the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 ("Construction Act 1996") which was implemented on 1 May 1998.

Corporate Recovery

Need corporate recovery or business rescue advice? Call The Vinden Partnership on 0845 504 9733 - Chartered Building Surveyors, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Bolton

Adjudicators - Whose side are you on anyway?

It's an Adjudicator's duty to consider the conflicting arguments and reach a decision on whose argument he prefers. But what happens if he thinks both parties have got it wrong...

Business Development

Are you in the construction sector? Need corporate Business Development services? Call The Vinden Partnership on 0845 504 9733 - Chartered Building Surveyors, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Bolton

Letters of Intent, Lies and Damn Lies

There are no prizes in life for being lazy and/or stupid. I know these are strong words but if you are in the habit of issuing letters of intent, or even worse, used to relying on them to undertake work, then you may be taking on unnecessary risk...

William Naylor t/a Powerfloated Concrete Floors -v- Greenacres Curling Limited

The disputes in the two adjudications were substantially the same with the result that the adjudicator in the second adjudication should resign pursuant to paragraph 9(2) of the Scheme for Construction Contracts