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• Fair’s fair: Adjudicator’s use of own ‘fair and reasonable’ rates did not offend against natural justice (10 November 2025)
• Is Anyone Home? ‘Smash and Grab’ Hits the Brick Wall of the Residential Occupier Exception (30 October 2025)
• Exciting News! Hawkswell Kilvington Joins Beyond Law Group (8 October 2025)
• Settle in haste, repent at leisure: Court confirms adjudication rights may survive into settlement agreements (3 September 2025)
• Just deserts: court enforces payment of notified sum without requiring “arid exercise” of further adjudication (21 August 2025)
• Hawkswell Kilvington Welcomes New Solicitor, Joe Mills (25 July 2025)
• Being realistic: Court adopts common sense, commercial view and holds Payment Application valid (25 July 2025)
• Too far, too bad - a Cautionary Tale of Tribunal Overreach in Building Safety Disputes (3 July 2025)
• International Construction Arbitration in 2025: Horizon Scanning and Hot Topics (1 July 2025)
• Promotions at Hawkswell Kilvington (17 June 2025)
• Legal Nitpicking Fails to Derail Adjudication Enforcement (17 June 2025)
• URS v BDW – Supreme Court answers key building safety questions (23 May 2025)
• Significant contributions: Tribunal makes RCO against developer and over 70 related entities (16 May 2025)
• Invoices containing a list of completed work but with no mathematical breakdown can be valid applications for payment (29 April 2025)
• Construction appointments: Can you really assign a claim? (22 April 2025)
• Hawkswell Kilvington is a Finalist at The Lawyer Awards 2025 (11 April 2025)
• Hitting pause: Indefinite postponement of works is a valid variation, court rules (25 March 2025)
• Payback time: Pay less notice deemed valid despite being served ‘early’ (17 March 2025)
• HAWKSWELL KILVINGTON BUILDS LONDON PRESENCE WITH SENIOR APPOINTMENT (4 March 2025)
• Significant new guidance on Building Liability Orders and “Information Orders” (3 March 2025)
• Paving the middle ground: Court delays enforcement where the Claimant is insolvent (6 February 2025)
• Clear by Design: When Determining Design Responsibilities in a D&B Contract, Express Terms Prevail (9 January 2025)
• We've been nominated for the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards! (8 January 2025)
• Pick your battles: unmeritorious challenge to adjudicator’s decision results in award of indemnity costs (12 December 2024)
• The government makes a move to speed up removal of unsafe cladding (3 December 2024)
• Adjudications everywhere all at once: court declines to restrain multiple adjudications and reiterates its reluctance to interfere (2 December 2024)
• No Second Chance: Court of Appeal Upholds Contractor’s Right to Terminate JCT Contract for Repeated Late Payment by Employer (11 November 2024)
• One Decision at a Time, Please! TCC declines to set-off second adjudicator’s award (30 September 2024)
• Hawkswell Kilvington Win Prestigious Legal Award (27 September 2024)
• ISG Administration/Contractor Insolvency (20 September 2024)
• You Asked For It, Now Own It: Court Upholds Adjudicator’s Decision to Award More Than Initially Claimed in “Smash and Grab” Adjudication (23 August 2024)
• Finalists in Three Categories at the Yorkshire Legal Awards (13 August 2024)
• UK SUPREME COURT CONFIRMS THAT A COLLATERAL WARRANTY IS NOT A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT (10 July 2024)
• And that was all they wrote? Precise language is needed to settle future claims (5 July 2024)
• FK obtains TKO in latest dispute between serial litigants (20 June 2024)
• Further Development with Two Promotions (4 June 2024)
• Not over till it’s over: conclusive evidence clause did not bite as dispute remained live (24 May 2024)
• Payback time: TCC upholds adjudicator’s decision entitling employer to recoup interim overpayment (2 May 2024)
• The JCT Design and Build Contract 2024 – What’s New? (23 April 2024)
• Intent on Disaster – TCC decision again highlights the perils of relying on a letter of intent (9 April 2024)
• JCT Announces Release of 2024 Edition (22 March 2024)
• CELEBRATING THE WOMEN OF HAWKSWELL KILVINGTON ON INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY 2024 (8 March 2024)
• RACHEL HEALD IS A FINALIST IN THE MENTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD CATEGORY AT THE WOMEN, INFLUENCE AND POWER IN LAW UK AWARDS (29 February 2024)
• One Dispute, One Adjudication, Two Alternatives: Smash & Grab attempt fails but True Value Award survives (23 February 2024)
• HAWKSWELL KILVINGTON TAKE PART IN BUSINESS FIVES FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT (20 February 2024)
• HARRY BICKERTON JOINS THE HAWKSWELL KILVINGTON TEAM (20 February 2024)
• Where does England end? TCC tackles interesting and complex question as to territorial extent of Construction Act (13 February 2024)
• ELLA HINDMARSH JOINS THE HAWKSWELL KILVINGTON TEAM (11 January 2024)
• A Lidl more joy this time – TCC accepts food retailer’s claims in part (9 January 2024)
• Within reason: TCC content to enforce succinct Decision (8 December 2023)
• TRIO OF PROMOTIONS STRENGTHENS GROWTH (8 December 2023)
• Waite is Over: First Remediation Order granted under the BSA 2022 (20 October 2023)
• Liability for RAAC: will your defence crumble? (17 October 2023)
• Lidl joy: Court rejects food retailer's Part 8 Claims (6 October 2023)
• September Newsletter (28 September 2023)
• Broad justice is natural in adjudication: court rejects defence based on alleged procedural unfairness (14 September 2023)
• Pay first, or risk disappointment: court declines to save ‘true value’ adjudication commenced prematurely (15 August 2023)
• Works despite quirks: liability cap upheld by TCC notwithstanding difficult language (15 August 2023)
• The first answer is often the right one: Court of Appeal upholds Adjudicator’s ‘Primary Decision’ (15 August 2023)
• Exams season | Court of Appeal answers wide ranging series of construction law questions (15 August 2023)
• No get-off through set-off: TCC rejects Defendant’s attempt to set-off competing adjudication awards (15 August 2023)
• Disputing the DRP: when might a Dispute Resolution Procedure be unenforceable? (15 August 2023)
• No infraction of interim application deadline: TCC confirms “the Court does not deal in fractions of a day” (15 August 2023)
• The time to pay has arrived: first Remediation Contribution Order granted under the BSA 2022 (15 August 2023)
• Pay first, or risk disappointment: court declines to save ‘true value’ adjudication commenced prematurely (10 August 2023)
• Works despite quirks: liability cap upheld by TCC notwithstanding difficult language (4 August 2023)
• The first answer is often the right one: Court of Appeal upholds Adjudicator’s ‘Primary Decision’ (18 July 2023)
• Exams season | Court of Appeal answers wide ranging series of construction law questions (10 July 2023)
• No get-off through set-off: TCC rejects Defendant’s attempt to set-off competing adjudication awards (27 June 2023)
• Disputing the DRP: when might a Dispute Resolution Procedure be unenforceable? (16 May 2023)
• April Newsletter (24 April 2023)
• No infraction of interim application deadline: TCC confirms “the Court does not deal in fractions of a day” (14 April 2023)
• Batish and others v Inspired Sutton Ltd [2023] (16 March 2023)
• The time to pay has arrived: first Remediation Contribution Order granted under the BSA 2022. (16 March 2023)
• URS CORPORATION LTD V BDW TRADING LTD [2023] (8 March 2023)
• URS CORPORATION LTD V BDW TRADING LTD [2023] (8 March 2023)
• WRB (NI) Ltd v Henry Construction Projects Ltd [2023] (7 March 2023)
• WRB (NI) Ltd v Henry Construction Projects Ltd [2023] (6 March 2023)
• J&B Hopkins Limited v A&V Building Solution Limited (22 February 2023)
• The latest NEC4 amendments: What do you need to know? (20 February 2023)
• Building Safety Update, Supply Chain Insolvency and Payment & Adjudication Seminar (16 February 2023)
• Why is sustainability important to Hawkswell Kilvington? (15 February 2023)
• LJR Interiors Ltd v Cooper Construction Ltd [2023] EWHC 3339 (TCC) (9 February 2023)
• LJR Interiors Ltd v Cooper Construction Ltd [2023] EWHC 3339 (TCC) (9 February 2023)
• LDC (Portfolio One) Ltd v (1) George Downing Construction (31 January 2023)
• LDC (Portfolio One) Ltd v (1) George Downing Construction Ltd and Another [2022] EWHC 3356 (TCC) (31 January 2023)
• Company Charity 2023 - Yorkshire Cancer Research (24 January 2023)
• Sudlows Ltd v Global Switch Estates 1 Limited [2022] (20 January 2023)
• Further Expansion With the Appointment of Another Nationally Recognised Solicitor (16 January 2023)
• Courts Enforce ‘Alternative Decision’ of Adjudicator Despite Breach of Natural Justice. (13 January 2023)
• Hawkswell Kilvington Shortlisted in the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards (13 January 2023)
• Office Move Sets New Foundations For Future Growth (9 January 2023)
• Variation or Rescission: A Question of Fact & Intention (30 November 2022)
• The worst part: inappropriate use of Part 8 proceedings in an effort to resist enforcement (17 October 2022)
• Remoteness defence struck out in cladding claim (12 September 2022)
• No time to lose! The implied obligation as to time for completion and the perils of failing to progress works expeditiously (17 August 2022)
• Be Sure to be Certain: Avoiding Potential Pitfalls with Liquidated Damages Provisions (8 August 2022)
• Carbon Neutral Organisation (4 August 2022)
• Life after death? The uncertain effect of an Adjudicator’s Decision on subsequent contract procedures (29 July 2022)
• D&B contractor liable for the cost of replacing defective cladding in the TCC’s first substantive decision post the Grenfell tragedy (18 July 2022)
• Court refuses to enforce two adjudication awards where the claimant is subject to a CVA (1 July 2022)
• Look back in anger: collateral warranties provided retrospectively may qualify as ‘construction contracts’ (23 June 2022)
• Natural Justice: it must be done (21 June 2022)
• The Building Safety Act – what could it mean for you? (10 June 2022)
• Validity and Interpretation of Pay Less Notices: Be Specific (8 June 2022)
• Immediate Payment Obligation under Section 111 is Paramount (27 April 2022)
• Court of Appeal finds that Limitation of Liability Clause does not Exclude a Claim for Wasted Expenditure (14 April 2022)
• Government ditches the role of Building Safety Manager in latest shake-up of the Building Safety Bill (12 April 2022)
• A More Nuanced Approach: HMRC’s Revised Policy on VAT Treatment for Early Termination Fees and Compensation Payments (31 March 2022)
• Conclusivity and Time Bar Clauses: Scottish Court of Session Guidance (18 February 2022)
• Resolving Costly Domestic Building Disputes: A Proposal by the TCC (27 January 2022)
• Government gives industry deadline of early March 2022 to agree to a plan of action to remediate unsafe cladding (19 January 2022)
• Entitlement to Liquidated Damages Lost After Alleged Verbal Agreement (18 January 2022)
• Lessons from the Court of Appeal: How not to go about enforcing a judgment on behalf of a company in liquidation (2 November 2021)
• Terms and Conditions: Formation, Incorporation and Invalidity (19 October 2021)
• Validity of Payment Notices and Severability of Adjudication Decisions (20 September 2021)
• Employer Entitled to Full Liquidated Damages Despite Having Taken Possession of Majority of Works (13 August 2021)
• Supreme Court Decide That Liquidated Damages Accrue Up Until Termination of the Contract Whereby Works Never Completed (19 July 2021)
• Building Safety Bill 2021: Retrospective extension of limitation period under the Defective Premises Act 1972 (7 July 2021)
• Proceed With Care - Entirety of Defendant’s Expert Technical Evidence Excluded by the TCC due to Non-Compliances (17 June 2021)
• Materials Shortage at ‘Crisis Level’ – How Can Companies Protect Themselves? (10 June 2021)
• Excluding Liability for Deliberate Breach – Is Special Wording Required? (12 April 2021)
• The TCC consider the circumstances in which an independent Category 3 design checker may owe a duty of care to a main contractor (8 April 2021)
• Introducing New Claims – An Unnecessary Risk? (23 February 2021)
• Contract Interpretation and Repudiatory Breach (3 February 2021)
• Adjudication Enforcement – “Subject to Contract” and Determination by Agreement (28 January 2021)
• The Brexit Trade Deal and its Impact on the Construction Industry (15 January 2021)
• Guidance from the TCC – No Final Account Provisions in the Contract? (11 January 2021)
• Adjudication Enforcement – Guidance on Natural Justice and Jurisdiction (7 December 2020)
• Letters of Intent and Incorporation of Standard Form Contracts (26 November 2020)
• Payment Applications – The Devil’s in the Detail (24 November 2020)
• The Second Set of NEC4 Amendments – What Do You Need to Know? (11 November 2020)
• Insolvent Company Successfully Enforces an Adjudicator’s Decision (2 November 2020)
• Assignment and Contribution Claims (30 October 2020)
• Insolvent Company Enforcing an Adjudicator's Decision – Applying the Principles (27 October 2020)
• Appointing an Adjudicator Before Serving a Notice of Adjudication – a Fatal Mistake (9 September 2020)
• Adjudication Enforcement and Stays of Execution (30 July 2020)
• Expert Determination Clauses: Take Care in Defining Your Dispute (28 July 2020)
• Clarity on S&T v Grove Development – True Value Adjudications (20 July 2020)
• The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 and the Construction Industry (14 July 2020)
• “No Crystallised Dispute” Jurisdictional Challenges (19 June 2020)
• Insolvency and Adjudication: Clarity from the UK Supreme Court (18 June 2020)
• Challenging the Substantive Merits of an Adjudicator’s Decision on Enforcement (9 June 2020)
• Enforcement of an Adjudicator’s Decision and Stays of Execution (27 May 2020)
• TCC Considers Design Obligations, Implied Terms of Fitness for Purpose and Causation (27 May 2020)
• True Value Adjudications and Stays of Execution (14 May 2020)
• Does Payment of an Adjudicator’s Fees Amount to a Waiver of the Right to Challenge their Decision? (7 May 2020)
• Interpreting Indirect and Consequential Loss Exclusion Clauses (4 May 2020)
• COVID-19 or “Coronavirus” – Additional Guidance from NEC (29 April 2020)
• Construction Webinar – Liquidated Damages and COVID-19 (24 April 2020)
• COVID-19 – Construction Contract Providers JCT, NEC and FIDIC Publish User Guidance (23 April 2020)
• Ascertaining Damages under an ABI-Type Performance Guarantees (20 April 2020)
• Construction Webinar – Payment during the COVID-19 pandemic (16 April 2020)
• Can Works be Omitted from a Construction Contract? (14 April 2020)
• Can an employer be liable for an employees’ data protection breach? Guidance from the UK Supreme Court (9 April 2020)
• Construction Webinar – COVID-19 and “force majeure” - what you need to know (6 April 2020)
• COVID-19 and Future Construction Contracts – How Can You Minimise the Risk? (26 March 2020)
• Further Statement from Hawkswell Kilvington – COVID-19: (25 March 2020)
• Planning for COVID-19 Site Closures (24 March 2020)
• COVID-19 or “Coronavirus” – Force Majeure, Frustration and Cash-Flow Considerations (23 March 2020)
• Hybrid Construction Contracts: Guidance from the Court of Appeal (19 March 2020)
• Further expansion for Hawkswell Kilvington with appointment of Matthew Shotton (13 March 2020)
• Fire Safety Reforms 2020 - Criminal Sanctions and Name and Shame (10 March 2020)
• COVID-19 or “Coronavirus” - The Likely Effects on your Company and How Best to Mitigate them (5 March 2020)
• Indemnity Costs Orders – Guidance from the Court of Appeal (17 February 2020)
• What Amounts to ‘Reasonable Endeavours’? (10 February 2020)
• Will the TCC Interfere in Ongoing Adjudications? (28 January 2020)
• Is Payment Required for the Vesting of Materials Under a Vesting Certificate? (13 January 2020)
• Implied Terms Relating to Discretionary Assessments (17 December 2019)
• Hawkswell Kilvington expands with appointment of nationally recognised Partner (4 December 2019)
• Hybrid Construction Contracts: Payment Notice Requirements (22 October 2019)
• Is Requiring “sign-off” Before Payment Permissible? (6 September 2019)
• Extension of Time Applications for Unless Orders (23 August 2019)
• Fraud, Duress and Undue Influence – Guidance from the TCC (19 August 2019)
• Exception Clauses and Causation – Guidance from the Court of Appeal (15 August 2019)
• Notices of Adjudication: What’s in a Name? (8 August 2019)
• Too Late to Adjudicate Under NEC Contracts? (1 August 2019)
• Hawkswell Kilvington shortlisted in three categories at the Yorkshire Legal Awards 2019 (18 July 2019)
• Challenging Disallowed Cost (16 July 2019)
• Can an Employer Pay a Sub-Contractor Direct and Recover the Payment from the Contractor? (10 July 2019)
• When Does an Adjudicator’s Error Amount to a Breach of Natural Justice? (3 July 2019)
• Adjudication Enforcement – Fraud and Stays of Execution (7 May 2019)
• Resisting Enforcement of an Adjudicator’s Decision – The Fraud Defence (29 April 2019)
• NEC4 Amendments - What Do You Need to Know? (21 March 2019)
• When is a Contract Formed? (8 March 2019)
• Are You Adjudicating Against the Right Party? (4 March 2019)
• Life after S&T v Grove; TCC Guidance on ‘Smash and Grab’ (25 February 2019)
• Is Challenging an Adjudicator’s Decision by Using Enforcement Proceedings an Abuse of Process? (14 February 2019)
• Adjudication and Insolvency (31 January 2019)
• Does a Material Breach of Contract Preclude Practical Completion? (28 January 2019)
• ‘Blowing Hot and Cold’: Adjudicators’ Jurisdiction and the Principle of Approbation and Reprobation (21 January 2019)
• Practical Completion - A Matter of Interpretation? – Issues for Sectional Completion (3 January 2019)
• Adjudication, Fraud and Stays of Execution (14 December 2018)
• Enforceability of Liquidated Damages (10 December 2018)
• “Smash and Grab” Adjudications – S&T v Grove: The Appeal (7 November 2018)
• Brexit and Construction Contracts – How Can You Protect Against Risk? (1 November 2018)
• In Breach, But at What Cost? Force Majeure, Causation and Damages (23 October 2018)
• Letters of Intent – A Tale of Uncertain Terms (19 October 2018)
• Economic Torts And Piercing The Corporate Veil – Can You Make A Claim Against Former Directors? (11 October 2018)
• Challenges to Enforcement: No Breach of Natural Justice (11 September 2018)
• No Greater Liability Clauses and Collateral Warranties – When Does Limitation Expire? (7 September 2018)
• Adjudication: What if a Company is in Liquidation? (7 August 2018)
• Hawkswell Kilvington shortlisted for Niche Law Firm of the Year at the Yorkshire Legal Awards 2018 (2 August 2018)
• Concurrent Delay: Allocating the Risk (31 July 2018)
• Contract Interpretation: Terms Will Not Be Implied Simply Because It May Appear Fair To Do So (24 July 2018)
• Can a Party Set-Off Against an Adjudicator’s Decision? (18 July 2018)
• Interpreting Contracts: The Need for Clear Words (10 July 2018)
• Exclusion Clauses: Incorporation and Reasonableness (3 July 2018)
• Reviewing Assessments under NEC3 (25 June 2018)
• Contractor's Liability for Design (12 June 2018)
• Adjudication, Enforcement, Payment and Winding-Up Petitions (5 June 2018)
• Are ‘No Oral Modifications’ Clauses Enforceable? (22 May 2018)
• The Problems with Entering into an Oral Contract (17 April 2018)
• “Smash and Grab” Adjudications: The End is Nigh (28 February 2018)
• Adjudication where some of the Contract is for “Excluded Operations” (21 February 2018)
• Carillion Liquidation (16 January 2018)
• Valuation of Works Following a “Smash and Grab” Adjudication (16 November 2017)
• Termination for Repudiatory Breach of Contract (3 November 2017)
• Quality Obligations in Design and Build Contracts (20 October 2017)
• Extensions of Time and Concurrent Delay (5 October 2017)
• Assessing Compensation Events (26 July 2017)
• Exclusion of Liability Clauses and Reasonableness (18 May 2017)
• Failure to Give Payment Notices and Pay Less Notices on Time (22 March 2017)
• New NEC4 Contracts Announced (3 March 2017)
• Limiting Liability for Delay under JCT (8 February 2017)
• Requirements for Valid Payment Applications and Pay Less Notices (18 January 2017)
• The Dangers of Agreeing a Payment Schedule (23 October 2016)
• JCT Design & Build 2016 – What Has Changed? Part Two (13 October 2016)
• JCT Design & Build 2016 – What Has Changed? Part One (3 October 2016)
• Can You Recover Adjudication Costs Under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act? (11 August 2016)
• JCT Minor Works 2016 – What Has Changed? (4 July 2016)
• Can A “Variations Must Be In Writing” Clause Be Overcome By An Oral Agreement? (14 June 2016)
• The Dangers of Poor Record Keeping – Fabricate Timesheets at Your Peril! (21 March 2016)
• Incorporating Standard Terms & Conditions – Beware the Pitfalls (10 March 2016)
• Can An Adjudicator Decide More Than One Dispute At The Same Time? (23 February 2016)
• Payment Schedules – Run Out of Dates and You May Run Out of Payments! (9 February 2016)
• When is an Oral Construction Contract Formed? (11 January 2016)
• Applications for Payment – The Importance of Getting the Timing Right (6 September 2015)
• Adjudication and Limitation Periods – You May Have Won The Battle, But Have You Won The War? (20 August 2015)
• Ignoring The Express Contract Terms – Will The Courts Uphold An Alternative Arrangement? (26 July 2015)
• Applications for Payment – Get the Dates Right or Risk Losing Out! (16 July 2015)
• Is Security Certain When Demanding Payment Under A Performance Bond? (14 April 2015)
• A Payment Lifeline For Contractors and Employers Worth Taking Notice Of? (13 March 2015)
• 7 Key Principles to Unlocking the Battle of the Forms (3 March 2015)
• The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 - Key Changes (24 February 2015)
• The Importance of Mediation (16 February 2015)
• Challenging Final Certificates Under JCT (9 February 2015)
• Give Notice or Pay on Demand (6 January 2015)
• Nominating Adjudicators: Don’t Abuse The Process! (17 November 2014)
• NEC3: Compensation Events and the Time Bar (23 September 2014)
• The Role of the Project Monitor and the Importance of Checking Vesting Certificates (13 August 2014)
• Hawkswell Kilvington shortlisted for Niche Firm at the Yorkshire Legal Awards 2014 (23 July 2014)
• Order of Precedence Clauses - Do You Need Them? (11 July 2014)
• JCT Contracts – What Is An “Appropriate Deduction” Where The Contractor Is Instructed Not To Remedy Defects? (18 June 2014)
• Design Responsibility - What Have You Signed Up To? (11 June 2014)
• Managing Compensation Events - Practical Tips (19 May 2014)
• Challenging a Final Certificate (8 May 2014)
• Hawkswell Kilvington shortlisted for National Boutique Firm of the Year Award (30 April 2014)
• 10 Insurance Pitfalls to Avoid (29 April 2014)
• Net Contribution Clauses - Are They Enforceable? (10 April 2014)
• Liquidated Damages - What's Enforceable? (31 March 2014)
• Termination Notices (17 March 2014)
• Failure to Provide Performance Bonds and Warranties (26 February 2014)
• Placing Sub-Contracts: 6 Top Tips (10 February 2014)
• Adjudication Costs – Are They Recoverable Through Litigation? (22 January 2014)
• Contracts - Getting the Name Wrong (7 January 2014)
• Adjudication, Litigation and the Limitation Period: When does the clock start ticking? (11 December 2013)
• Who Are You Contracting With? (26 September 2013)
• Can you Adjudicate under a Collateral Warranty? (17 September 2013)
• NEC3 – 5 Common Amendments (3 September 2013)
• Enforcement of an Adjudicator’s Decision – Is it Compatible with Human Rights? (9 August 2013)
• Mediation of Construction Disputes – 5 Tips for a Successful Mediation (3 July 2013)
• Excluding and Limiting Liability – Traps to Look Out For (20 June 2013)
• The New NEC3 Suite of Contracts – What Has Changed? (10 June 2013)
• Late Payment under Construction Contracts - what new remedies are available to payees? (7 May 2013)
• The Problem With Retention And How It Can Be Solved (11 April 2013)
• Contract Formation - 5 Frequently Asked Questions (11 March 2013)
• Limiting Your Liability – 5 Key Tips (25 February 2013)
• Getting Paid - 10 Common Questions (23 January 2013)
• Annual Review of 2012 (17 December 2012)
• 10 Things You Need To Know About NEC3 (28 November 2012)
• Exclusion & Limitation of Liability Clauses (19 November 2012)
• Announcing our Spring 2013 Seminar Dates (14 November 2012)
• Adjudicators’ Fees – Do You Have to Pay if the Decision is Unenforceable? (1 November 2012)
• Termination for Repudiatory Breach (16 October 2012)
• Battle of the Forms - Whose Standard Terms & Conditions Apply? (2 October 2012)
• Reviewing Contracts - 10 Key Clauses to Look Out For (17 September 2012)
• Duties of Project Managers, Letters of Intent, Liquidated Damages & Limitations of Liability (5 September 2012)
• Loss & Expense, Conditions Precedent and Global Claims (3 August 2012)
• Extensions of Time and Concurrent Delay (26 July 2012)
• Termination of Construction Contracts (10 July 2012)
• Hawkswell Kilvington wins Regional Boutique Firm of the Year Award (27 June 2012)
• Letters of Intent - 5 Key Questions (26 June 2012)
• Best Endeavours & Reasonable Endeavours - What Do They Mean? (14 June 2012)
• Practical Completion – What Does It Mean? (28 May 2012)
• Understanding Collateral Warranties (4 May 2012)
• The New Edition of the CPA Model Conditions for the Hiring of Plant - What Has Changed? (9 March 2012)
• Limitation Periods - When Is It Too Late To Claim? (27 February 2012)
• Adjudication Update (17 February 2012)
• How Secure Is Your Security? (3 February 2012)
• Adverse Weather Conditions (5 January 2012)
• Recovery of Retention - Recent Developments (12 December 2011)
• Spring 2012 Construction and Contract Law Update Seminar Dates Announced (1 December 2011)
• The New Construction Act - Avoiding the Pitfalls (2 November 2011)
• Hawkswell Kilvington receives excellent review in Chambers and Partners 2012 (28 October 2011)
• Contract Formation: Battle of the Forms (26 October 2011)
• The New Construction Act - How Will It Affect Plant Hire? (10 October 2011)
• Hawkswell Kilvington has won Law Firm of the Year (6 October 2011)
• The New Construction Act – Amendments To NEC3 Contracts (5 October 2011)
• The JCT 2011 Suite of Contracts – What Will Be Changing? (13 July 2011)