Construction claims and contract law, for practitioners
Reported judgments, solutions to 250+ legal/contractual issues, FIDIC clause by clause guidance, calculators and CPD for practitioners who prepare, defend and determine construction claims.
Society of Construction ClaimsSpecialists InternationalSince 2009
Construction claims and contract law, for practitioners
Reported judgments with the reasoning in full, clause-by-clause guidance to the standard forms, calculators for time and money, and continuing professional development. Written for claims specialists, quantity surveyors and construction lawyers.
Certification programmesThe Society's ECCCS, ECCDA and ECCCM programmes are delivered at sccsinternational.org
Contents
What is published here
A working reference for claims specialists, quantity surveyors and construction lawyers: the legal position on the problems that arise on real projects, the judgments behind it, and the tools to act on them.
250+ legal and contractual issues, each answered with the governing rule and the authorities behind it.
Technology and Construction Court judgments from 2003 onwards, each opened with a plain summary of what was decided.
A full law report on each case: the facts, the issue, the decision and the practice points that follow from it.
An interactive process flow for each case, mapping the reasoning step by step from the dispute to the ruling.
Navigators for all twenty clauses of the Red Book: the claims, the risks and the time bars each one carries.
720 self-test questions taken from the judgments themselves, to check how well a decision has landed.
Calculators, converters and working tools for delay, quantum, payment, retention and the notices that go with them.
Letters to adapt and send, covering contractual notifications, claims letters and formal legal notice.
Introduction to Construction Law in twelve lessons, written for people coming to the subject for the first time.
Today's filing, five questions on a reported judgment, the day's legal analysis and the decisions that change what a notice has to do.
Top of the desk
All of today's filing
United KingdomA homeowner must repay a 225,000 pounds flood settlement after failing to tell Thames Water that the house she called unsaleable had been soldThames Water has had a 225,000 pounds settlement set aside.
Filed 26 October 2026
Contract NewsDubai Municipality awards AED3bn Tasreef Phase 3 drainage contractsFour Phase 3 Tasreef projects will add about 100km of main stormwater lines across Jumeirah.
Filed 26 October 2026
Middle EastFinal bridge of Dubai's World Trade Centre roundabout project opens on 30 OctoberDubai's Roads and Transport Authority opens the last of five bridges at the World Trade Centre.
Filed 26 October 2026
Tech and AIThe owners of Elvis Presley's music sue Anthropic, alleging that 274 of his songs were used to train its Claude models without a licencePresley's rights owners say Anthropic trained Claude on 274 of his songs without a licence and seek.
Filed 26 October 2026Ninety seconds
The Daily Knowledge Check
Five questions on claims and contract law. Every answer opens onto the authority behind it.
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Three to read
One reported judgment from the Technology and Construction Court, and two stories from this morning that are not already above.
Reported judgmentParagon Group Limited v FK Facades Limited [2026] EWHC 78 (TCC)
The sole issue was whether the assignee of an employer's rights under a construction contract.
6 minutes
United KingdomA tenant's break takes effect despite 45,000 pounds of unpaid rent because the landlord's agents invoiced only up to the break date
A landlord could not rely on a conditional break clause after its own agents invoiced rent.
3 minutes
Contract NewsWakefield signs 40m pound Castleford regeneration partnership with Muse
The contract, let through a framework further competition.
3 minutesLegal analysis
Thames Water v Imber: a flood claim settled on the footing that the house was unsaleable is rescinded because it had been sold before the deal was done The point of law, 25 October 2026A homeowner told a mediation that her flooded house could not be sold and claimed its full value. It was sold for £780,000 a fortnight later, and she settled for £225,000 without saying so.
All legal analysisTerm of the day
Standard of proof Claims, evidence and dispute resolutionThe standard of proof is the level of persuasion required to establish a fact. In English civil proceedings the usual standard is the balance of probabilities, applied to the evidence on each issue.
The full glossaryDecided in the last seven days
The risk board
Four rulings that change what a notice, a bid or a bond has to do. Each one opens the full report.
A party that lost part of its section 68 challenge to an arbitration award cannot keep the judgment private, the Commercial Court rules
The court refused a request, made only after the draft was circulated, to keep a judgment on a serious irregularity challenge confidential.
High Court, 26 October 2026TerminationAn Oldham landlord brings in a new contractor to correct defects and finish 30 flats after terminating the original builder for delay
First Choice Homes Oldham says the replacement contractor's survey of its 3.7 million pounds Shaw Street scheme in Royton found substantial outstanding work, defects to correct and design elements that need attention to meet building regulations.
First Choice Homes Oldham, 26 October 2026TenderFCDO prepares 10.6m pound Accra High Commission redevelopment tender
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has updated its market engagement notice for the redevelopment of the British High Commission offices in Accra, Ghana, a project it values at 10.6m pounds excluding VAT.
25 October 2026AdjudicationA lift maker cannot enforce a 416,499 pounds adjudication award while the contractor may show there was never a contract
A specialist lift manufacturer won 416,499 pounds in adjudication against the main contractor on a Network Rail station scheme in Essex.
Mr Justice Moody, 23 October 2026