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Robert Tunningley

Rising Materials Costs Deepen Insolvency Risk in UK Construction Sector

The UK construction sector is facing intensifying financial pressure as the latest government data reveals a sustained decline in the...

03/10/25
Doug Robertson

UK Construction Insolvency Rates Remain High in 2025

Despite a modest improvement from 2024, the UK construction sector remains under significant financial pressure in 2025, with insolvency...

24/09/25
Gordon Chan

First adjudication enforcement refusal in 2026: TCC declines summary judgment over “fabricated” JCT contract

The TCC in High Tech Construction Limited v WLP Trading and Marketing Limited [2026] EWHC 152 (TCC) refused the Claimant's (HTC's)...

10/02/26
Eniko Vella

NICs rise has added pressure to the UK construction sector

The recent hike in April 2025 to National Insurance Contributions (NICs) is sending ripples through the UK construction sector,...

13/10/25
Victoria Kempthorne

Mitigating the increased risk of insolvency in the construction industry

The UK construction sector is experiencing an increasing rate of insolvency, with recent data revealing that construction firms accounted...

21/11/24
Gordon Chan

Supreme Court rules collateral warranty is not a construction contract

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has handed down a significant judgment for the construction industry earlier today (9 July 2024)....

09/07/24
Anna Dyde

Pay now, argue later! How far does that concept go under the Construction Act?

‘Pay now, argue later’.  It is often said that is the nature of the payment and adjudication procedures in the Housing Grants,...

12/01/24
Timothy Willis

The art of interpretation in dispute resolution: Lessons from BDW Trading v Ardmore Construction

As a construction professional, I am certain that you have by now come across the judgment in BDW Trading Limited v Ardmore Construction...

20/03/25
Alex Delin

Enforcement of an Adjudicator’s Decision - Murnells London Limited v Mr Beale [2025] EWHC 2651 (TCC)

The Technology & Construction Court at Liverpool recently released a decision enforcing an adjudicator’s award. The defendant, a private...

03/12/25
Gordon Chan

Payment notices are red, payless notices are blue… but it’s the substance within that’s true!

According to King’s College London’s third construction adjudication report published in November 2024, the Technology and Construction...

13/02/25
Joanne Moseley

Does an employee have to exhaust the grievance procedure before they can claim constructive dismissal?

That was the issue the EAT had to decide in the case of Nelson v Renfrewshire Council. Facts Ms Nelson was a learning and support teacher...

09/10/24
Elizabeth Thomson

Building Safety Bill - beware longer limitations

This article, by Natalie Cane, first appeared in Architecture Magazine Claims under contracts can only be commenced within a certain time...

14/10/21
Natalie Cane

New JCT 2024 – Sustainability / ESG

The new JCT Design and Build contract, 2024 edition has been released, and as we have seen, there have been a number of updates to the...

06/06/24
Gordon Chan

Taking a Risk with the Contract? The Good Faith Provisions in JCT DB 2024

This article is part of Irwin Mitchell’s “thought pieces series” on the JCT Design and Build Contract 2024 (DB 2024), by members of the...

05/06/24
Irwin Mitchell

Liquidated Damages, The Triple Point Case, and the New JCT

The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) has released its new Design and Build Contract 2024. A new clause (2.29.5) relating to liquidated...

04/06/24
Elizabeth Thomson

Adjudication: ‘the good can and should be severed from the bad’

A dispute over the late completion of a hotel in Shoreditch has resulted in another significant judgment on the status of adjudication....

29/07/19
Victoria Kempthorne

RAAC – what are the implications for schools?

On 31 August 2023 the Department for Education (“DfE”) announced that schools and colleges with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete...

03/10/23
Bella Kagoma

The Building Safety Act 2022 and how it impacts commercial properties

The Building Safety Act 2022 (“the Act”), which received Royal Assent on 28 April 2022, is being brought into force in stages. The Act...

20/09/23
Alex Delin

The Building Safety Levy

Following the 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy, the Building Safety Act 2022 (the “Act”) was introduced to improve the design, construction...

17/03/25
Joanne Moseley

Employment law: news in brief – January 2026

How much will changes to the unfair dismissal qualifying period and compensation cap cost UK businesses?  The Department for Business and...

21/01/26
Joanne Moseley

Knowledge and disability: what should you do if you find out someone is disabled after you've dismissed them?

Most disability discrimination claims are brought under section 15 of the Equality Act 'discrimination arising from disability' and...

22/11/21
Irwin Mitchell

New Draft Fees Order Published - Planning Fees to rise on 1 April 2025

On Monday, the Government laid a draft statutory instrument before parliament that, once made, will increase a wide range of planning...

14/01/25
Alex Delin

TCC confirms adjudicator’s power to award payment to responding party in VMA v Project One

A short judgment was handed down by the TCC recently in VMA Services Ltd v Project One London Ltd [2025] EWHC 1815 (TCC) which is well...

12/08/25
Alexandra Addington

Redundancy selection: qualifications and age discrimination

To dismiss someone fairly for redundancy you must adopt a procedure that is fair and reasonable in all of the circumstances.  Part of...

25/06/25
Irwin Mitchell

Spring Forecast 2025: Labour plans to build its way to economic growth

Earlier today, the Chancellor delivered her Spring Statement and… well… let's just say that it caught me a little by surprise.  It is now...

26/03/25
Joanne Moseley

Government abandons legislation that would have protected workers from third party harassment

Under our current laws, it can be difficult for workers to bring successful claims against their employers for harassment they experience...

20/07/23
Alex Delin

The threshold for a 'Relevant Defect' under the Building Safety Act 2022: the First-Tier Tribunal's decision, 6 January 2026

What is and isn’t a ‘Relevant Defect’ under Section 120 of the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) continues to be debated amongst parties to...

23/01/26
Jeremy Ladyman

WhatsApp messages can be valid contracts

The High Court has delivered a pivotal ruling recently in Jaevee Homes v Fincham [2025] EWHC 942 (TCC)  that confirms enforceable...

29/07/25
Joanne Moseley

Do you really need to suspend an employee?

The Court of Appeal in H v Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has set out some useful tips for employers...

23/01/20
Joanne Moseley

Discrimination and long-term sickness: keeping employee in the dark about changes to her role cost employer £1.2m

While absent from work having chemotherapy, an employee discovered via LinkedIn that a colleague had been given her job. We consider the...

27/08/25