Newsletter
Information for members
July 2005

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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 .

Tuesday 5 July, 6.15.pm
“Current Trends in Dispute Resolution”
Speaker: Dr Robert Gaitskell QC
Chairman: Professor Anthony Lavers
National Liberal Club, Whitehall, London

Tuesday 7 September, 6.15pm
“Payment Notices/Issues”
Speaker: Peter Collie
Chairman: tba
Brunswick Lecture Theatre, Leeds Metropolitan Univ.
Organiser: jonathanhawkswell@scl.org.uk

Friday 7 October, 12pm
Joint SCL /RICS/CIArb “Construction Conference”
Speakers: The Honourable Mr Justice Jackson, John Riches, Nerys Jefford and Sean Brannigan
Chairman: The Honourable Mr Justice Jackson
Venue: Pride Park , Derby . 12.00 noon
Cost: £55 per person (to include lunch and afternoon tea)
Bookings will be organised by RICS – details to follow.

Thursday 20 October, 6.15pm
“NEC 3”
Speaker: Brian Eggleston
(chairman and venue to be announced)
Organiser: arulselvaratnam@scl.org.uk

Thursday 20 October, 6.00pm
“Insuring the integrated team”
Speaker: Steve Bamforth
Chairman: tba
The Rose Bowl, Southampton SO30
Organiser: marianharris-deans@scl.org.uk

Tuesday 15 November, 6.15pm
“Novation after Blyth & Blyth”
Speaker: Scott McKinnell
Chairman: tba
Brunswick Lecture Theatre, Leeds Metropolitan Univ.
Organiser: jonathanhawkswell@scl.org.uk

'Users' Guide to Adjudication' and 'Guidance for Adjudicators'

With this Newsletter you will find a flyer for the Users' Guide, published by the Construction Umbrella Bodies Adjudication Task Group. If you would like to receive a free hard copy of the Guide and/or the companion publication, Guidance for Adjudicators, please log into the SCL website, go to 'Members' and then choose the link to the page from which you can order your copy(ies), which will be posted to you in due course. Time limit - the end of July. This offer is only available to full members of the Society; overseas e-members can download PDF versions of them via the links on the homepage. If you would like multiple copies please get in touch with the Construction Industry Council (details on the flyer).

SCL Hudson Prize 2005

Write a winning essay and SCL will write you a cheque – and send you a case of champagne!

Entries are invited for this year’s SCL Hudson Prize (closing date 31 st December 2005 ) 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 detials, or else download a copy from the website. Why not give it a try this year – if you don’t enter, you can’t win!

SCL Membership

A reminder to members that the Society has no corporate membership. This means that, even if your subscription is paid by your company, membership belongs to you and not to your company. It follows therefore that if you move, you take your membership with you. If you are planning to move to another company, please don’t forget to let admin have your forwarding details so that we can keep our membership list up to date (or you can of course log onto the web and update your own details).

Avoidance of doubt

Members of Council have been contacted by some members concerning possible confusion arising from the advertisement of construction law seminars by an organisation using the initials SGCL. For the avoidance of doubt, SCL has no connection with that organisation or its seminars. I hope this provides any clarification which had become necessary.

Anthony Lavers, Chairman.

Membership and SCL logo clarification following recent queries

All members are reminded that:

Membership of the Society does not carry a qualification as such, however SCL Membership may be mentioned on a CV.
Members who have a web site can create a link to the SCL web site but the Society will only link to non-commercial organisations from its own web site (www.scl.org.uk).
Membership of the Society does not allow members to use the SCL logo as part of their individual or corporate promotional material.
The SCL logo can be used for promotional material involving events (such as conferences) in which SCL is a key partner. However permission to use the logo must always be requested first.

SCL Website – how to register

A reminder to those members who have not yet registered on the website that it’s a once only task and it’s easy to do. Just go to the website homepage www.scl.org.uk click Member Registration, which is listed below the Member Login box on the right hand side of the homepage, and enter your details and a username and password of your own choosing. Your membership number is also asked for (if you don’t know it, then admin can tell you).

Thereafter, you can simply log onto the website using your username and password. When you log in you will see a navigation link to 'Members' which is where you can update your contact details, email subscriptions and data protection information – 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).

The website is constantly being improved. If you have any questions, problems or suggestions, please contact our webmaster, Edward Peters, at Webmaster

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:

Paul Barry, London
Stefan Cucos, London
Andrew Flowerdew, Great Yarmouth
Michael Barrett, Bucharest, Romania
Robert Blundell, London
Richard Booth, London
Jim Delkousis, Perth, Australia
Jason Evans-Tovey, London
Keith Keown, Chelmsford, Essex
John Lurie, London
Cerys McRobert, London
Peter Mills, Johannesburg, South Africa
Penny Moore, London
Neil Mowat, Dubai, UAE
Allan O'Brien, Chingford, Essex
Marie-Claire O'Hara, London,
Graeme Reddish, St. Helier, Jersey
John Stuart Ringland, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Oliver Stanway, London
Roger ter Haar QC, London
Jason Tudor, Wolverhampton
John Yates, Hampton, Middlesex

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Newsletter Information for members July 2005