Hudson Prize winners

Note: most of these papers are available from our papers page.

2008:
1st prize: not awarded this year
2nd prize: Sarah Pengelly: Do the exclusivity provisions of the NHS LIFT standard form contract comply with EU procurement regulations?

2007:
1st Prize: Julian Bailey: Public Law and Statutory Adjudication
2nd Prize: not awarded this year

2006:
1st Prize: Julian Bailey: What Lies Beneath
2nd Prize: Ronan Champion: Variations, Time Limits and Unanticipated Consequences

2005:
1st Prize: Philip Britton: Right building – wrong place? Wrong building – right place?
2nd Prize: Julian Bailey: Repudiation, termination and quantum meruit

2004:
1st Prize: not awarded this year
2nd Prize: Adrian Baron: The battle between logical purityand commercial expedience: Heralding limits to the ‘Twin Agreement’ fiction

2003:
1st Prize: Philip Britton: The architect, the banker, his wife and the adjudicator: unfair contract terms and construction

2002:
1st Prize: Philip Britton: Oxalic Acid and the applicable law: the Rome Convention and construction
2nd Prize: Hamish Lal: The doctrine of penalties and the 'absurd paradox' - does it really matter in 2003?

2001:
1st Prize: Adrian Baron: Damages in the shadow of a penalty clause - tripping over policy in the search for logic and legal principle
Joint 2nd Prizes: Hamish Lal: Extensions of time: The conflict between the 'prevention principle' and notice requirements as a condition precedent and Ben Ring: Separability - a tale of two agreements

2000:
1st Prize: Philip Eyre: Panatown v McAlpine – Has the Fog Cleared Yet?
2nd Prize: Philip Britton: Construction, Public Bodies and Liability in Negligence: Fair, Just and Reasonable?
Prize Giving Evening, May 2001

1999:
1st: Deborah Brown: After the Divorce - Problems With Partnering Agreements
2nd: Michael J Barlow: Pure Economic Loss for Defective Buildings After Henderson v Merrett Syndicates: When is a building contract not an ordinary building contract?
Prize Giving Evening, April 1999

1998:
1st: Fiona Hammond: Rethinking construction - how should lawyers respond to the call for integrated teams and an end to construction contracts
2nd: Clive Hardy: Re-thinking roles in expert evidence after Woolf

1997:
1st: John McGuinnes: The Effect of Letters of Intent
2nd: Richard McLoughlin QC: Arbitration and Judicial Review in Scotland

1996:
1st: Paul Bick: Some Aspects of Good Faith and Fairness in the Formation of Construction and Engineering Contracts
2nd: Richard Lyndon: Can a contractor’s failure to perform a contractual obligation constitute an acceptance of an anticipatory breach by the employer.

1994:
1st: Helen Payne: An Analysis of the Risks Inherent in the Build-Own/Operate - Transfer Method of Infrastructure Procurement

1993:
1st: Jonathan Hosie: The Ascertainment of Damages for Delay in Construction Contracts: Liquidated and Unliquidated Damages
2nd: Paul McGivern: Arbitration: Party autonomy or court control?

1992:
1st: D E Ballard: Payment for Materials or Goods not yet Incorporated in the Works

1991:
1st Michael Webster: Developments in the Methods of Managing Construction Projects in the UK, USA and France: From Hard Hats to Thinking Caps
2nd: Stephen Weatherill: Cartel Busting in the Construction Industry Joint Siobhan Leslie The British and Dutch Construction Industry
3rd: Andrew Pike: Construction Management and the JCT Contracts
 

1988:
1st: Peter Barber: Management Contracting - Low Risk for the contractor, Low Recovery by the Employer