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Information for members
July 2004

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Programme

Unless marked otherwise, the following meetings are free to members and guests. Location maps are now always available on the website.

All are welcome but for those meetings where the organiser’s telephone or email is given, it would be helpful if you could please let them know of your intention to attend .

Thursday, 1st July, 6.15pm
Joint SCL /SCA meeting.
"What’s wrong with arbitration? - lessons learnt from adjudication and the new 100-day procedure"
Speakers: Professor John Uff QC and John Tackaberry QC
Chairman: Chris Dancaster
Venue: Strand Campus, King’s College, London

Tuesday, 7th September, 6.15pm
“The tribunal in the driving seat – inquisitorial procedures in adjudication and arbitration”
Speaker: Peter Aeberli
Chairman: tba
Venue: National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1

Tuesday, 21st September, 6.00pm
“Project Information & Exchange ( PIX ) Protocol Guide and Tool Kit: The Impact on Communication Protocols for Construction”
Speakers: Paul Wilkinson and John George
Chairman: Jocelyn Taylor
Venue: Renaissance Hotel, South Normanton , Derbyshire DE55
Organiser: jocelyntaylor@scl.org.uk

October (date tba)
“Does a sub-contractor have any rights under the main contract?”
Speaker: Thomas Wren
Chairman: tba
Location: Cork (venue and time tba)

Tuesday, 5th October, 6.15pm
Joint SCL /Adjudication Society meeting
“The Construction Act Review – some thoughts on what could be done”
Speaker: Chris Dancaster
Chairman: Nicholas Gould
Venue: National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place , London SW1

Tuesday, 12th October, 6.15pm
“ADR (Antipodean Dispute Resolution) with special references to construction”
Speaker: Tómas Kennedy-Grant
Chairman: Anthony Lavers
Venue: National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place , London SW1

Tuesday, 12th October, 6.00pm
“Claims under the Contract and at Common Law”
Speaker: Andrew Noble
Chairman: Andrew MacCuish
Venue: Brunswick Lecture Theatre, Leeds Metropolitan Univ.
Organiser: jonathanhawkswell@scl.org.uk

Thursday, 14th October, 6.00pm
“Novation”
Speaker: Rachel Barnes
Chairman: Frances Paterson
Venue: Linbury Building , Wocrcester College , Walton St. Oxford
Organiser: richardwade@scl.org.uk

November (date tba)
“Fair valuation of variations under civil engineering contracts and building contracts”
Speaker and chairman: tba
Location: Cork (venue and time tba)

Tuesday, 2nd November 6.15pm
Joint SCL /TECBAR meeting
“Construction and Technical Dispute Resolution”
Speaker: Mr Justice Jackson
Chairman: Paul Darling QC
Venue: Lincoln ’s Inn Old Hall, Chancery Lane , London WC2

Tuesday, 16th November, 6.00pm
“Completion”
Speaker: John Nestor
Chairman: tba
Venue: Nottingham Trent University (tbc)
Organiser: jocelyntaylor@scl.org.uk

Tuesday, 7th December, 6.15pm
Joint SCL /TECBAR meeting
“Construction law – the outer limits”
Speaker: Paul Darling QC – Chairman of TECBAR
Chairman: Lord Justice May
Venue: National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place , London SW1

Regional Co-ordinator for Cardiff

As a result of his increased workload, Stephen Thompson has, with regret, had to step down as the regional co-ordinator for the Cardiff region. Our thanks go to Steve for his past efforts on behalf of the Society.

We are now keen to find an SCL member willing to become the new regional co-ordinator for Cardiff . Much help is available to anyone willing to take on this role – from suggesting topics for talks and speakers, to finding venues for your meetings.

If any member would like to put his/her name forward, please contact Charlotte Blake charlotteblake@scl.org.uk or Jackie Morris admin@scl.org.uk who will be happy to give details on what the role involves.

SCL Hudson Prize 2004

Write a winning essay and SCL will write you a cheque!

Entries are invited for this year’s SCL Hudson Prize (closing date 31 st December 2004 ) and an invitation leaflet is enclosed with this newsletter. If you are interested in submitting an essay, Jackie Morris can send you a copy of the entry details, or else download a copy from the website.

Why not give it a try this year - if you don’t enter, you cannot win!

Resolving Disputes “Professionally” or “Commercially” – developments in ICE Dispute Resolution

The latest developments in ICE Dispute Resolution will be introduced at a half-day seminar at the Institution of Civil Engineers on Monday 5 th July 2004 at 1.30pm, including

the newly revised Clause 66
NEC 3 rd Edition and the HGCR Act
the ICE Dispute Resolution Board Procedure.

Speakers include Simon Delves, Tony Bingham, Geoffrey Hawker, Frances Forward and Gwyn Owen. A reception courtesy of Shadbolts and Co will follow the presentations and discussion.

Admission is free but it will be necessary reserve a place with the ICE. To do this or to request further information please contact John Hawkins on 020 7665 2217 or John.Hawkins@ice.org.uk

SCL Website

If you have not yet done so, take a look at the new website which has been completely redesigned to make it easier to use. Members can now log in from the homepage, and stay logged in throughout the site until they log out. When you log in you will see a new navigation link to 'Members' which is where you can update your contact details, email subscriptions and data protection info - as well as search for information about other SCL members who have agreed for their data to be accessible to other members on the website (currently over 500 members). In due course some new facilities will be added for members.

Other site enhancements include:

Easier site navigation, more sections and links from the new left-navigation on all pages except the home page.
A News page and a separate Newsletters list page.
Forthcoming events can now be filtered by city.
A new 'ethics' section of the site.

If you have any questions, problems or suggestions, please contact our webmaster, Edward Peters, at webmaster@scl.org.uk

Contributions invited from Members

What construction law related topic would you like to see presented as a talk? Please email your suggestions to Jackie Morris on admin@scl.org.uk and we will do our best to organise a talk in your area.

You are also invited to contribute to the newsletter. If you have an item related to construction law that you feel would be of interest to others, then please email text to Jackie Morris at admin@scl.org.uk . A member of Council will thereafter decide whether to include the item in the next newsletter. Please note that we do not accept advertisements or items of a commercial nature.

New Members

Finally, we are pleased to welcome the following new members who joined the Society in June:

Adrian Bell, London
Julian Bailey, London
Adebowale Olufeko, London
Simon Jacklin, Bristol
Alan McMillan, Edinburgh
Anthony Bacon, London
Iftikhar Khan, London
Sinead Proctor, London
Miranda Terry, Essex
Bill McDonald, Victoria, Australia
Alastair Young, Birmingham
Sheree McKay, London
Del Orr, Ayr
Peter Redgrave, Warrington
John Sturrock, Edinburgh
Nick Websdell, Warrington
Kristian Graabek, London

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Newsletter Information for members July 2004