Legal

Considerable changes to the VAT treatment of supplies in the construction industry will be introduced with effect from 1 October 2019, which will have significant cost implications for businesses.

The news that Brexit could be delayed until Halloween has alleviated one headache for those sitting in construction boardrooms across the country. But another looms in shape of a new Pensions Bill. Defined-benefit (ie, salary-related) pension schemes have attracted a huge amount of overdue attention in the construction sector following…

Cashflow is the lifeblood of the construction industry and adjudication was introduced to help with the circulation of that lifeblood.

In February this year, the High Court issued a declaration that the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union would not frustrate the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) lease of its headquarters in Canary Wharf. The EMA had written to its landlord (which we’ll refer to as “CW”) notifying it that…

The question of how to use technology on construction sites is arising more frequently, as is the issue of liability in respect of its use.

Practical completion is not simply a case of getting the job done, says Natalie Pilagos.

A new court ruling applies where there is real risk of an enforcing party disposing of an adjudication award so that it is no longer available to be repaid

Contrasting decisions from the TCC and the Court of Appeal show the huge pitfalls of failing to finalise terms, says James Worthington.