The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) has announced that the long-awaited 2024 edition of the Design and Build Contract family will be released on 17 April 2024. JCT announced the 2024 Edition last year and, so far, all we know […]

Hawkswell Kilvington are very proud to announce that Rachel Heald, who heads up the non-contentious team, is a finalist in the Mentor of the Year category at the Women, Influence and Power in Law UK Awards taking place next week […]

On 15 February 2024 the Hawkswell Kilvington team participated in the Leeds Business Fives football tournament. The challenge was to be competitive but most important raise more funds for our chosen charity Yorkshire Cancer Research. Four gruelling games later and […]

Harry has joined us a paralegal and will be starting his LPC part-time in September.

We are thrilled to welcome Ella Hindmarsh to Hawkswell Kilvington.  Ella joins our contentious team as a solicitor, and will be resolving disputes via all forms of dispute resolution including adjudication, litigation, arbitration and mediation.

In Bexhill Construction Ltd v Kingsmead Homes Ltd [2023], the TCC held that an adjudicator’s decision was enforceable and rejected arguments that the adjudicator had breached the rules of natural justice by not considering all defences raised. Background Kingsmead Homes […]

Hawkswell Kilvington, has made a series of promotions to its senior team promoting Claire Saunders, Matthew Shotton and Rebecca Jackson to their new role as Legal Director. The trio of specialist construction lawyers deal with complex and high value construction disputes […]

Here is our September newsletter where we will share with you a roundup of our recent bulletins highlighting important developments in construction law, together with some HK news and details of our Autumn seminar programme. Please feel free to make […]

In Henry Construction Projects Ltd v Alu-Fix (UK) Ltd [2023], the TCC declined to enforce a true value adjudication decision where that adjudication had been commenced before the contractor had discharged its immediate payment obligation to its subcontractor arising from […]