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As part of Cardium Law’s strategy to build our international law network to support property and construction clients globally, directors Matt Clark and Chris MacQueen visited New York for a major legal conference. Cardium already has international business relationships with…

When an ailing business faces insolvency, an insolvency practitioner will often seek to sell it as a going concern. But what if that company is under investigation for health and safety infractions? Will the new owners find themselves facing hefty…

The General Rule: The Technology and Construction Court (TCC) is non-interventionist and reluctant to accept challenges to adjudicators’ decisions in enforcement proceedings. This is because the court considers that an adjudicator’s decision should be upheld if he has answered the…

In brief…. Following the Government’s Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, the Government are planning to introduce ground breaking reforms which will significantly impact the regulatory landscape for building standards and safety. With the introduction of the Building…

As the primary purpose of the adjudication scheme is to facilitate cashflow in the construction industry you are always going to be facing an uphill battle to persuade a court not to enforce an adjudication award. That is not to…

With the mid-year mark being reached for 2021 first half results have started to come out of China. along with numerous policy initiatives that are likely to have an effect on business trends in the region, we set out below…

As many of us have adapted to working almost exclusively from home, we’ve begun to rely more heavily on online methods of communication: signing documents electronically is commonplace; court hearings now occur virtually. Where the law hasn’t adapted yet, though,…

A question that Freudenberg FST GmbH and their lawyers Fladgate LLP were left asking themselves following the Technology & Construction Court’s decision to exclude their expert evidence for egregious breaches of their experts’ duty to the Court. While this is…

£2.1 Billion of Possible Claims. 370,000 policy holders or more affected. 700 types of policy. Life is difficult enough during the Covid Pandemic without insurers trying to wriggle out of policies that were brought to provide a financial comfort blanket…

In Part One of our Article on Misrepresentation, we explained how a misrepresentation is an untrue statement of fact, or law, made by Party A to Party B, which ‘induces’ (is of real and substantial relevance in persuading) Party B…