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Information for members
February 2007

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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.

Monday, 5 February 6.15pm - Please note change of date for this meeting
“What to do with Construction Substantive Law now that Construction Procedural Law has been dealt with? – A tribute to Ian Duncan Wallace QC”
Speaker: His Honour Judge Anthony Thornton QC
Chairman: John Tackaberry QC
Venue: National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW1

Tuesday, 6 February 6.00pm
Special joint University of Strathclyde/SCL meeting
"NEC3: A Mid-Term Review"
Speaker: Hamish Lal
Venue: Room 101, Sir John Arbuthnott Building, University of Strathclyde
To register, email Linda Ion at Linda.ion@strath.ac.uk

Friday, 16 February 12.30pm
The Society's Annual Lunch at the Brewery
Speaker: Alan Chambers MBE
Venue: The Brewery, 52 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4SD
Fully booked – waiting list only – see separate item below

Thursday, 22 February 6.00pm
“Concurrent delays: where do we stand?”
Speaker: Colin Reese QC
Chairman: Simon Lewis
Venue: Dickinson Dees, St Ann's Wharf, 112, Quayside, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1
Organiser: Simon Lewis

Thursday, 1 March 6.00pm
“Delay in Major Construction Projects”
Speaker: Hamish Lal
Chairman: David Anderson
Venue: RICS, Manor Place, Edinburgh
Organiser: Lindy Patterson

Tuesday, 6 March 6.15pm
“The case of John Doyle v Laing Management - is it good English law? Is it good English practice?”
Speaker: Jeremy Winter
Venue: National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW1

Thursday, 8 March 6.00pm
“Construction Act Review”
Speaker: Professor Rudi Klein
Chairman and venue (in Birmingham) to be announced
Organiser: Arul Selvaratnam

Friday, 9 March 8.30am – 1pm
“Society of Construction Law Annual Conference”
Speakers: The Hon Mr Justice Jackson, Nerys Jefford, Brian Eggleston, Chris Ennis & Professor Anthony Lavers
Chairman: The Hon Mr Justice Jackson
Venue: The Royal Armouries, Leeds
Organiser: Jonathan Hawkswell

Tuesday, 20 March 6.15pm
“Mediation”
Speaker: Robert Sliwinski
Venue: DLA Piper UK LLP, 1 St Pauls Place, Sheffield S1
Organiser: Jocelyn Taylor

Thursday, 22 March 6.00pm
Joint SCL/CIOB Meeting
Speaker: Peter Fraser (title of talk and chairman tba)
Venue: Hambledon Suite 1, The Rose Bowl, Southampton SO30
Organiser: Marion Harris-Deans

Thursday, 22 March 6.15pm
Please note change of date for this meeting
"The use of advance forensic animations in the resolution of complex disruption claims"
Speaker: Keith Pickavance
Chairman: Ian Pennicott QC
Venue: Jury's Inn Hotel, Midsummer Boulevard, Central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK9
Organisers: Judith Bird or Michael Gerard

Monday, 2 April 6.15pm
Please note change of date for this meeting
“Turnkey Contracting: what do Owners want and what do they get? (A comparison of treatments under the FIDIC Silver Book and the new ICC Turnkey Conditions of Contract)”
Speaker: Jonathan Hosie
Venue: National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW1

Tuesday, 1 May 6.15pm
Presentation of the winning 2006 Hudson Prize Paper
(winner to be announced)
Chairman: Professor Anthony Lavers
Venue: National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW1

Tuesday, 15 May 6.15pm
“Time at large: calculating a reasonable time to complete in the absence of a completion date”
Speaker: Keith Pickavance
Chairman: Andrew Maccuish
Venue: Lecture Theatre 118, The Northern Terrace, Civic Quarter, Leeds LS1
Organiser: Jonathan Hawkswell

Lunch at the Brewery

The speaker at the Brewery lunch this year will be Alan Chambers MBE who, amongst other achievements, was the l eader of the first successful British team to walk unsupported from Canada to the Geographic North Pole. More information about him can be found at www.normanphillips.co.uk/alan_chambers_bio.htm

As expected, bookings for the lunch have gone extremely well, the event is now fully booked and a waiting list for tickets has been started. For enquiries please contact Frances Whitehead on 01708 731 476 or email franceswhitehead@scl.org.uk

Subscriptions

We are grateful to the many members who have already paid their 2007 subscriptions.

The Renewal of Membership invoices were posted to all full members in December (overseas e-members received an emailed invitation to renew). If you did not receive your invoice, or it has been mislaid, please email admin@scl.org.uk and ask for a replacement copy.

If you wish to remain a member of the Society but have not yet paid your subscription, please do so as soon as possible. Payments can be made online – just go to www.scl.org.uk and click ‘shop' (top of homepage) and then ‘Membership payments' – or send a cheque for £100 (payable to the Society) to the Admin office at the address below. When you are logged paid, a receipt will automatically be generated and sent to the email address we have for you on the database.

A reminder of the timetable for subscriptions payments

As the Society continues to grow there is an increased need to keep administrative costs to a minimum. Council has therefore decided to introduce a strict timetable for reminding those members who forget to pay their subscriptions. The Constitution of the Society states that all subscription fees should be paid by the end of March and so the 2007 timetable for reminding members is as follows:

1. Mid December: Invoices are posted to full members (and emails sent to overseas e-members).
2. Early January: An email will be sent to all unrenewed members reminding of 31 January discount.
3. Late January: A second email reminder to unrenewed members of 31 January discount.
   Payments we receive from 1 February onwards must be paid at the full rate of £100.
4. Mid February: Email to all unrenewed members reminding of the need to pay by 31 March.
5. Mid March: A second email reminder to all unrenewed members of the need to pay by 31 March.
6. 24 March: Final notification that membership will cease if payment is not received by 31 March.
7. 1 April: All unpaid members will be lapsed. If lapsed members subsequently wish to re-join the Society, they will be treated as new members.

Please note : It is extremely important that the contact details we have for you on the database are up to date so that the reminders go to the correct email address. You can update your own contact details at any time, or email and ask admin to do it for you.

Norman Royce Prize

Our congratulations go to SCL Councillor Hamish Lal whose paper has won the Inaugural Norman Royce Prize awarded by the Society of Construction Arbitrators.

Papers

Enclosed with this newsletter is a published copy of the SCL paper entitled Establishing Dispute Boards – Selecting, Nominating and Appointing Board Members by Nicholas Gould. Overseas e-members will receive a copy of this by email, and it is also available on the website.

In the pipeline, to be published shortly on the website are two papers given to meetings in Ireland - 'Formation of Contracts and Letters of Intent in Construction: English and Irish Law' by Dudley Solan (talk given in Dublin in October) and 'Tenders and Public Procurement: Recent Developments in EU and Irish Law' by Finola McCarthy (given in Cork in November).

SCL Junior Members

  If you are under 40 or new to the world of construction law, then you can register as a junior member.  The junior committee arranges site visits, conferences with King's College London and social events such as the annual summer Boat Trip on the Thames .

Booking preference for any of the organised Junior events is always given to those who are registered as Junior Members . To register as a Junior Member is easy. Simply log in to the SCL website (www.scl.org.uk) using your username and password. Click on ‘Members' and then and then the 'Junior members' link on the left. You will find an explanation of Junior Membership, and a simple form to register. You do not need to enter your name/details – these are already recognised by the website after you logged in; you only need to confirm your eligibility by giving either your date of birth, or stating that you are junior in your area of expertise. Nicholas Gould, SCL's Chairman, is responsible for the Junior members and he can be emailed.

All SCL members were recently emailed the flyer giving details of the site visit arranged for Tuesday, 6 th  March. The site visit is to the eye catching Imperial College Southside Development project, hosted by Simon Chatwin, Commercial Manager of Laing O'Rourke. Places are limited and, as usual, bookings have been brisk. For details, contact Frances Whitehead at franceswhitehead@scl.org.uk

How to register on the website as a member

In order to get members' access to the website you must register online as a member. To register, go to the website homepage www.scl.org.uk click Member Registration 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). That's all there is to it.

Thereafter, you simply log onto the website using your username and password to get free access to the list of published papers, access your own contact details, or search for the contact details of other SCL members who have agreed for their data to be accessible to other members on the website – the total of those who have given permission is now nearly 1,000 members.

New Members

The names of the new members who joined the Society during January will be printed in the next newsletter.

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