UK
Prolongation Costs: Where Now After Costain v Haswell?
Dr Ronan Champion
June 2011
A paper presented to meetings of the Society of Construction Law in Reading on 29th March and Manchester on 9th May 2011
NEC3 Professional Services Contract (PSC3): The Consultants' Perspective
Rachel Barnes
August 2011
A paper presented to the Society of Construction Law at a meeting in London on 8th March 2011
Rachel Barnes takes a critical view of the provisions of the PSC3 contract, taking a general look at the contract, its form and intention, before considering in detail five particular aspects: (i) The Key Dates provisions (ii) The status of the matters on the Risk Register (iii) the new provision concerned 'prevention' (iv) the bases for limiting liability and (v) the concept of 'Defects' and the obligation to put them right.