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Global infrastructure report 2012 - issues and trends in investment and development
Bingham's Global Infrastructure studies a diverse range of issues and trends in infrastructure investment and development around the world. This edition contains articles discussing infrastructure development in the US, the road forward for India and Nigeria and Islamic development culture.
Law Firm: Bingham McCutchen | Published: 19 January 2012 | Practice Area: Planning and Development
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Boris' island airport to prepare for take-off?
The UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, has instructed cabinet ministers to push through large infrastructure projects as a way of increasing UK economic growth and to stimulate UK employment, including the Mayor of London's ambitious island airport project. This alert details what is currently known.
Law Firm: Eversheds | Published: 02 November 2011 | Practice Area: Air
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Construction and engineering update: limitations of liability and wilful default
Clauses which exclude or limit a party's liability under a contract are often the subject of much negotiation in the process and engineering sectors. This briefing examines to what extent a party's wilful default or deliberate breach be covered by the exclusion or limitation of liability.
Law Firm: Eversheds | Published: 20 October 2011 | Practice Area: Construction
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Russia overhauls rules for documenting relationships in investment and construction sectors
The Russian Supreme Arbitration Court has published a resolution which creates substantial risks for builders, investors and developers and others working in investment and construction by amending the classification of relationships arising when investments are made.
Law Firm: Pepeliaev Group | Published: 07 October 2011 | Practice Area: Construction
Building on success: construction act changes
After years of discussion and speculation, changes to the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 will come into force on 1 October. This briefing describes how the revisions to the Act will usher in fundamental changes, most notably the extension of the Act to cover oral contracts.
Law Firm: Macfarlanes LLP | Published: 14 September 2011 | Practice Area: Construction
Silencing noisy neighbours through the courts
Disruption and interference to a neighbour is often an unavoidable consequence of redevelopment works to a property. This briefing uses a recent case where a builder took more than four years to renovate a terraced house to ask: at what point does disruption become an actionable nuisance?
Law Firm: Macfarlanes LLP | Published: 30 August 2011 | Practice Area: Construction
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Special report on changes to construction contracts set to come into force
The statutory framework that governs all construction contracts is changing on 1 October, inclduing a number of key changes to Part II of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. Eversheds reports.
Law Firm: Eversheds | Published: 28 July 2011 | Practice Area: Construction
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Big brother meets the consumer – the rise of facial recognition software
Is facial recognition software the key to a great personal shopping experience or one step closer to a Big Brother state? This briefing looks at how facial recognition software works, its uses and the law surrounding it.
Law Firm: Shoosmiths | Published: 26 July 2011 | Practice Area: Consumer Protection
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Redefining the landscape for planning - the National Planning Policy Framework and Demolition
Changes to the country’s planning policy have been proposed in a draft of the National Planning Policy Framework. The draft is notable for responding to the need to simplify the planning system, as well as its attempt to create a framework to “proactively encourage growth”, as Nabarro reports.
Law Firm: Nabarro | Published: 21 July 2011 | Practice Area: Planning and Development
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Online retailing - the perils of paying lip service to consumer legislation
While one of the biggest effects of non-compliance with consumer protection legislation is to position a business in the marketplace as having little concern for consumer rights, creating reputational risk, it should not be forgotten these rules are actively enforced as well.
Law Firm: Wragge & Co | Published: 14 July 2011 | Practice Area: Consumer Credit
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