UK

Temporary Disconformity Revisited

Ellis Baker and Anthony Lavers
May 2007
A paper given to a meeting of the Society of Construction Law in Bristol on 26th October 2006.

This paper considers situations where, during the currency of a project, the works do not comply with the contract requirements; the authors look at the legal consequences flowing from that, specifically the question of whether the owner is entitled to a remedy against the contractor.

Variations, Time Limits and Unanticipated Consequences

Ronan Champion
May 2007
A paper based on the second prize entry in the SCL Hudson Prize essay competition 2006, presented to a meeting of the Society of Construction Law in London on 1st May 2007

The 1999 FIDIC suite of standard forms, followed by NEC3, introduced clauses requiring formal notices by contractor to employer for events which may give rise to a claim (including variations), with a short time-limit for such notices and the claim being barred if notice is n