Proposed changes to limitation periods
In July 2001 the Law Commission produced a draft reform bill that recommended the Limitation Act 1980 (the Act) which at present sets out a range of different and confusing limitation periods be replaced by one single 'core' limitation regime by when a party has to bring legal proceedings against another before the claim is time barred. Read more.

Adjudication claims can never be too vague 

The recent case of VGC Construction Limited v Jackson Civil Engineering Limited shows the courts unwillingness to go behind the decisions of adjudicators. Read more.

CJP Builders Ltd v William Verry Ltd - Technology and Construction Court
Was the adjudicator's failure to consider a response submitted in the course of an adjudication a breach of natural justice? Read more.

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