News & events

February 9, 2012

The arrival of Jatinder Garcha and David Toscano strengthens our team

Fenwick Elliott is pleased to welcome Jatinder Garcha and David Toscano. Both have extensive experience throughout the construction industry at home and abroad. Jatinder will focus primarily on non-contentious projects work whilst David’s main interests lie in dispute resolution. To find out more about Jatinder, click here, and David, click here.

February 6, 2012

Cost management pilot – interim report

Since 1 October 2011 a costs management pilot scheme has been operating in the Technology and Construction Court (the “TCC”) (together with the Mercantile Courts) and is due to complete on 30 September 2012. Nicholas Gould, a partner at Fenwick Elliott (in his capacity as a Senior Visiting Lecturer at King’s College, London) and Claire King an associate at Fenwick Elliott are amongst those monitoring the effectiveness of the pilot study. The interim report is now available to download. To find out more about the pilot, please click here

February 1, 2012

February's issue of Dispatch

February's issue of Dispatch looks at mediation, considering agreements to mediate and a case where a party had refused to mediate. We also ask whether making a 3 minute telephone call to a barrister was sufficient to mean an adjudicator had breached the rules of natural justice.

January 31, 2012

January's issue of Insight

January's issue of Insight provides information on Building Information Modelling (BIM) and the legal implications of its widespread use.

January 26, 2012

Renewable energy - ocean current power generation

We are drafting contracts for the innovative renewable ocean current energy generation project in the Firth and Orkney Waters, Scotland. Our client produced the world's first commercial scale grid connected shoreline wave energy device, and this technology has played a substantial part in developing commercial use of this renewable energy source. Contact: Nicholas Gould ngould [at] fenwickelliott [dot] com

December 20, 2011

Winter's International Quarterly

In this issue read about the enforcement of DAB decisions, the new ICC Arbitration Rules, the FIDIC conditions of subcontract and the controversial new FIDIC particular conditions of contract for road works in Romania.

December 1, 2011

Capital Projects in the Education Sector Seminar 2011

We hosted our annual Capital Projects in the Education Sector Seminar on 1 December 2011 in London. Click here to download the seminar papers.

November 23, 2011

Fenwick Elliott Annual Review 2011/2012

We are pleased to announce that our Annual Review for 2011/2012 is now available on line.

November 1, 2011

New partner, Peter Collie strengthens Fenwick Elliott's team

We are pleased to announce that Peter Collie joined Fenwick Elliott as a partner on 1 November 2011.

Peter, a Barrister, has over 32 years experience in the construction industry and has worked as a legal adviser on major construction and engineering projects around the world. Peter is one of only 46 people worldwide on the FIDIC President’s Panel of Adjudicators and Dispute Board Members.

October 3, 2011

New Payment and Adjudication regime

The Government has finally confirmed that the amendments to the statutory payment, adjudication and suspension rules established by the HGCRA, introduced by Part 8 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development & Construction Act 2009 will take effect from 1 October 2011. The changes include extending section 107 so that the adjudication legislation applies to oral and partly oral contracts and not just contracts evidenced in writing. There are also a number of important changes to the statutory payment framework including an entirely new notice scheme and an enhanced statutory right to suspend performance in response to non-payment. For further information and practical advice about what the new changes will mean for you, please click here.

October 1, 2011

Adjudicator Guidance: Jurisdiction

Fenwick Elliott has been working with the Adjudication Society and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in order to produce a series of adjudication guidance notes. The first one, dealing with jurisdiction, has recently been approved by the Policy Sub-Committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Executive Committee of the Adjudication Society.

The purpose of the series of guidance notes will be to assist not just adjudicators but also parties and parties’ representatives in respect of the key issues that they and adjudicators face. To download the article click here.

July 20, 2011

Introduction to International Adjudication - Conference, 29-30 June 2011

Fenwick Elliott worked with the DRBF and King's College London to deliver the "Introduction to International Adjudication" - Conference 29 & 30 June 2011 in London. This conference was also supported by FIDIC and the Adjudication Society. The event brought together speakers from around the world to explore how the different types of Dispute Boards are being used and might be used in the future from both the users' and funders' point of view, the various procedures available and the procedural rules published by the main institutions, and the significant issues that arise in practice. To download the paper given by Nicholas Gould on the enforcement of DAB decisions, please click here.