Construction Contracts: Law and Management, Third Edition

Construction ContractsThis is a fully revised Edition of the UK s leading textbook on the law governingconstruction contracts and the management and administration of those the legal principles involved are an aspect of general contract law, the practicaland commercial complexities of the Construction industry have increasingly made thisa specialist new Edition is up to date with recent cases and developments in the law as itstands at July 2000. It takes full account of the effects of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, the Arbitration Act 1996, the Contracts (Rightsof Third Parties) Act 1999 and the changes in the legal system brought about by theWoolf reforms. The coverage of financial protection, particularly bonds and guarantees,the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations, Construction insurance, andtendering controls has been extended and amplified. All of the common standard-formcontracts have been revised in recent years and the text takes account of these particular, more use is made of the New Engineering Contract and the GC/Worksfamily of contracts, especially where these contain specific differences from JCT 98,IFC 98 and ICE than providing a commentary on standard-form contracts, the approach is to introduce the general principles that underlie contracts in Construction , illustratingthem by reference to the most important standard form

in Construction Management and Project Management. We have also assumed that such students will already have been introduced to the general principles of English law, especially those relating to contract and tort. As a result, while aspects of those subjects that are of particular relevance to construction are dealt with here, the reader

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