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Sports Clubs Health and Safety Obligations
The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (the Act) imposes legal obligations on everyone conducting business or undertakings to ensure a safe workplace. Sport or recreation organisations should be aware these obligations apply to you regardless of whether ...
Nov 30, 2023
Construction: Can you de-risk inflation?
By the time you can finally make ends meet, they move the ends. We are not at the point – yet – where we will need a wheelbarrow of cash to buy a loaf of bread, but contractors may feel that way when it comes to purchasing materials. We hear every day ...
Feb 10, 2022
Brawling on and off-site – the costly effect of finger-pointing between trades
The judge said: “He seemed to me to be an old-fashioned builder who found the defendant – as a professional, assertive woman – rather difficult to deal with when things were not going well and, as a consequence, tended to avoid doing so.” The use of the ...
Nov 16, 2021
COVID-19 – Claims for loss and expense due to slower working conditions?
24 April 2020 Working under the constraints of level 3 working conditions will likely slow the pace. That may mean that a further extension of time is required to the due date for completion. Although, I suspect if a project is near completion and ...
Apr 27, 2020
COVID-19: Suspension costs – taking the pragmatic approach
1 April 2020 The first question on claiming suspension costs at the moment is to ask whether it is right - when everyone is suffering - to ‘throw in the kitchen sink’ in claiming delay costs when work starts again. This will no doubt be the subject of ...
Mar 31, 2020