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  • Red and Green should never be seen. Is it time for a rethink?

  • Who is writing your arbitration awards?

  • Desafíos de los contratos FIDIC en español
    Challenges of FIDIC Contracts in Spanish

  • Bridging the green – is FIDIC moving forward sustainably in 2025?

  • The Engineer under FIDIC forms of contract: Real-life questions

  • New Arbitration and Mediation Guidelines for Indian Public Procurement Contracts

  • CAB to Resolution: Steering Clear of Conflicts

  • No Notice, No Claim? Conditions Precedent in FIDIC Contracts

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 02 – The Employer

  • No Oral Modification Clauses Mean What They Say

  • The Highest UK Court Reviews the Law on Penalties

  • The Problem with Enforcing Arbitration Awards that have been Annulled

  • The Dangers of Employer Set Off in your FIDIC Contract: Suspension and Termination

  • FIDIC Sub-Clause 20.5 – A Condition Precedent to Arbitration

  • FIDIC Silver Book – Payments Due Shall Not Be Withheld… Really?

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 01.15 – Limitation of Liability

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 14 -Contract Price and Payment

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 13 – Variations and Adjustments

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 12 – Tests after Completion

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 11 – Defects After Taking Over

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 07 – Plant, Materials and Workmanship

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 16 – Suspension and Termination by Contractor

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 12 – Measurement and Evaluation

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 09 – Tests on Completion

  • Cofely v Knowles – From Appointment to Disappointment

  • BoQ Rates Neither ‘Immutable nor Sacrosanct’

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 04 – The Contractor

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 05 – Design

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 04 – The Contractor

  • Are ‘binding’ DAB decisions enforceable?

  • FIDIC’S procedures for the appointment of a DAB need improvement

  • ‘Taking-Over’ in the FIDIC Red Book 1999: Common Problems

  • FIDIC Dispute Board Decisions: Late for a Very Important Date?

  • FIDIC Green Book 2021 – Short and Simple?

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 10 – Employer’s Taking Over

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 20 – Claims, Disputes, and Arbitration

  • As simple as it seems? – an analysis of the prolongation costs clause in the FIDIC Green Book 2021

  • Risks in the Construction of Hydropower Projects: Unforeseen Ground Conditions under FIDIC

  • Panther Pounces on Late Notice: Dubai court disagrees with Obrascon on time-bar under Sub-Clause 20.1 of FIDIC 1999

  • The Role of the FIDIC Observer in ICC Arbitrations on FIDIC contracts

  • Be Nice to the Kid in the Corner: Brussels Cour de Cassation provides Charter for Overworked and/or lazy arbitrators

  • Soaring global construction costs under FIDIC: whose risk?

  • FIDIC 2022 Reprints: 10 Key Areas Of Change In The FIDIC Red Book 2017

  • FIDIC contracts – Introduction to the FIDIC Green Book 2021

  • The 12 Worst Things About FIDIC 2017 – A Christmas Special

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 13.8 – Variations: Adjustments for Changes in Cost

  • Price escalation and FIDIC: is Force Majeure an answer?

  • International Arbitration and Third Party Funding: Time to Rethink Reward and Risk?

  • FIDIC’s New Green Form: The Missing Link

  • On-Demand Bonds, Injunctions and FIDIC Contracts

  • FIDIC Changes in Legislation and Covid-19: Compelled by Law or Just Doing Your Job?

  • The Baby is Back in the Bath: Liquidated Damages in the UK Supreme Court

  • Arbitration Update – The new FIDIC certifications: will they pass the test?

  • FIDIC 2017: A Practical Legal Guide – Errata

  • Arbitration Update 2021

  • ‘Subject to Contract’ in English Law

  • Changing Tack

  • Obstacles to the Appointment of an Arbitrator

  • Jurisdiction, Admissibility and FIDIC

  • Tribunal Secretaries: Tasks, Transparency and Regulation

  • Covid-19 and FIDIC contracts – what protections and entitlements?

  • Damages at Large: Triple Point, FIDIC and the TCC

  • FIDIC’S Golden Principles – holding back the tide?

  • Pay attention Bond!

  • FIDIC’s Emerald Book – A contractor’s charter or optimum risk allocation?

  • Design Obligations in Design-Build Contracts – Recurring Issues

  • No EOT for Concurrent Delay, if so Agreed

  • FIDIC contracts – What protection do they give contractors for employer financial problems?

  • Arbitration in a Post-Brexit World

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 17 – Risk and Responsibility

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 08 – Commencement, Delays, and Suspension

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 06 – Staff and Labour

  • Cherry Picking FIDIC 2017

  • Fitness for Purpose Højgaard and FIDIC’s Yellow Books

  • Variation Provisions in the FIDIC Yellow Book 2017

  • Unintended Consequences of the FIDIC 2017 Clause 20.1 Claims Classification System

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 14 – Contract Price and Payment

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 03 – The Engineer

  • FIDIC 1999 Upgrade Launched

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 21 – Disputes and Arbitration

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 20 – Employer’s and Contractor’s Claims

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 18 – Exceptional Events

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 16 – Termination by Contractor

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 15 – Termination by Employer

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 10 – Employers Taking Over

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 09 – Tests on Completion

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 08 – Commencement Delays and Suspension

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 06 – Staff and Labour

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 03 – The Engineer

  • 2017 Suite: Commentary on Clause 02 – The Employer

  • FIDIC 2017 – First Impressions of the 3-Kilo Suite

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 19 – Force Majeure

  • All Damage Is In A Sense Consequential – So What In Law Are Consequential Losses?

  • Mistake In English Law: Two Recent Cases

  • Penalty Clauses Down Under

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 15 – Termination by Employer

  • A Surprise Award of Third Party Funding Costs

  • The Employer’s Agent

  • The Risk of Relying on the Obrascon case’s ruling on Sub-Clause 20.1 Claim Notices

  • Unjust Enrichment and Construction Contracts – A Cinderella Story?

  • Murphy’s Law

  • The SCL’s New Take on the Delay and Disruption Protocol

  • The Courtesy Trap – FIDIC’s Sub-Clause 20.5 – Amicable Settlement and Emirates Trading

  • 1999 Suite: Commentary on Clause 05 – Nominated Subcontractors

  • ICC Arbitration – Penalties for Slow Arbitrators

  • Frozen Out

  • Where Do FIDIC Cases Go?

  • Society of Construction Law’s Rider 1 to its Delay and Disruption Protocol

  • Employers Beware

  • Aspect v Higgins: The Final Reckoning

  • PERSERO 2 – Singapore Court of Appeal rules DAB decisions are enforceable by way of interim award

  • Direct Claims by Subcontractors against Employers

  • Court of Appeal confirms judgment in Obrascon v Gibraltar

  • Time’s up for FIDIC’s Pink Book?

  • Can an Employer Instruct an Airport Instead of a Road?

  • Time Waits for no Man – So you think the Adjudicator got it wrong? How long do you have to challenge the decision?

  • Comparison between the Red Book 1999 and the MDB Harmonised Edition Pink Book 2010

  • Can a party ignore FIDIC’s DAB process and refer its dispute directly to arbitration?

  • Indemnity Costs – you’ll be lucky! Interim Payment of Costs – definitely maybe

  • Light at the end of the tunnel? Gibraltar dispute reviews key FIDIC Yellow Book provisions

  • Tunnel Vision: The English High Court Considers the FIDIC Yellow Book

  • Mind The Gap: Analysis of Cases and Principles Concerning the Ability of ICC Arbitral Tribunals to Enforce Binding DAB Decisions Under the 1999 FIDIC Conditions of Contract

  • Enforcement of DAB decisions – The legal justification for the ‘enforcement’ of a ‘binding’ DAB decision under the FIDIC 1999 Red Book

  • Are you in? Or are you out? An analysis of Section 69 of the English Arbitration Act 1996: Appeals on a question of law

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