News / 16.09.2021 What liabilities do building contractors face if they do not complete their contract on time? These are unprecedented times for building contractors many of whom are under pressure to deliver contracts despite staff shortages and delays in materials being delivered. What liabilities do contrac... Read More
News / 04.09.2018 Control your Building Project The costs and complexity of building work continues to increase. Even simple extensions can now justify formal written contracts agreed with the assistance of lawyers. A property owners desire to... Read More
News / 30.08.2018 Chaos on a building site. Or is it? When I was a small boy my mother often used to come into my bedroom and announce loudly that “This place looks like a building site”. I always thought that to be a bit unfair o... Read More
News / 24.04.2018 Do I Need A Contract With My Builder? https://www.battens.co.uk/our-people/iain-coleThis is often a question that forms in the mind of a homeowner when considering an extension. In many cases the builder is a friend or someone already k... Read More
News / 12.04.2017 Proving your Point Litigation is expensive, time consuming and stressful. Whenever there is doubt as to causation there must be corresponding doubt in respect of liability. Potential litigants should take note of the Te... Read More
News / 31.10.2016 House Building – Are We Getting There? Apparently there may still remain over 550,000 plots of land where permission to build had been granted but on which there had been little or no development work. Not a new story but still d... Read More
News / 31.10.2016 Dispute Resolution – An Adrenalin Kick Have the Courts and other professional bodies finally caught up with clients’ desires for quicker solutions? Will we see a variety of dispute resolution methods to catch up with adjudication? T... Read More
News / 26.09.2016 Fixed Fee Adjudication - What is it and How Does it Work Adjudication is now the most widely used form of dispute resolution within the construction and engineering industry. It is designed to make the money flow. It is quick, usually straightforwar... Read More