"Identifying and managing your legal expectations to avoid pitfalls in an increasingly demanding project role"

July 2011

In this paper, Nicholas Gould reviews professional liability with a particular emphasis on modern project management practice. In reality, this means a traditional form of forward thinking construction professionals (quantity surveyors, now commercial cost managers, or some other derivation, building surveyors, architects, engineers) that have expanded into the area of project management and those acting as employer’s agents (there are of course those who have qualified as project managers (PM) or taken a masters degrees in the subject).

"Project security & guarantees"

May 2011

"Expert evidence: all my own work"

22 April 2010

"Let there be light: fiat lux"

January 2009

Simon Tolson explains exactly what a right to light is and how that right can be enforced.

"Late payment of commercial debts legislation"

Updated in January 2007

This briefing note (originally prepared for clients by Simon Tolson and up-dated by Theresa Mohammed) sets out the key features of the late payments legislation which provides a remedy for companies faced by non-payment of their invoices.

"Railway law for engineers"

5 November 2003

Jon Miller, in a talk given to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, provides an introduction to the general principles of English law under which the UK rail network operates. He sets out how these general principles apply specifically to the railways and, against that background, explains what can happen when something goes wrong.