Fifty contractual solutions, open to all.
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Solutions to fifty legal/contractual issues
Fifty selected problems from the library, free to every reader and drawn from all fourteen topics. Open a topic to see what it carries. Each solution gives the governing rule, the authorities behind it and the steps that follow.
01Procurement3
02Tenders and Bidding3
03Design3
04Letters of Intent2
05Programme2
06Delay2
08Liquidated Damages4
09Variations2
10Loss and Expense5
11Payment7
12Completion and Defects3
13Rights and Remedies5
14Adjudication7
entire contracts, partnering, subject to contract, tendering and the collateral tender contract
the tender contract, mistakes and withdrawal, key personnel and undisclosed evaluation methods
fitness for purpose against reasonable skill and care, the duty to warn, coordination, novation and design liability
what they bind, payment for work done, and the risk of starting before the contract is made
the approved or accepted programme, float ownership, and the effect of making the programme a contract document
critical-path analysis, concurrent delay, global claims, time of the essence and endeavours to prevent delay
notices and time bars, the prevention principle, net or gross assessment, omissions, adverse weather and force majeure
the penalty rule, time at large, the exclusive remedy, sectional completion and passing damages down the chain
valuation and fair rates, omissions, quotations, loss of profit and work outside the contract
head office overheads and the formulae, finance charges, profit, acceleration and consultant claims
notices and pay-less, set-off and abatement, retention, interest, pay-when-paid and insolvency
practical completion, patent and latent defects, access to remedy them, and passing settled losses down the chain
certificates and conclusiveness, limitation, exclusion clauses, without prejudice and professional negligence
jurisdiction and enforcement, natural justice, set-off against a decision, costs and the adjudicator's fees