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Latest papers

Paddy Mockler

The winning paper in the SCL Ireland Young Practitioners Essay Competition 2025

Melissa de Oliveira

The paper awarded second place in the SCL Ireland Young Practitioners Essay Competition 2025

Seb Oram

A paper presented to the Society of Construction Law in Reading on 11 February 2026

Rory Bremner speaking at SCL Lunch

What's new

Have you ever considered standing for election to join Council? The 2026 election provides a fantastic opportunity to join a diverse, inclusive, and progressive Team. It is also an exceptionally valuable time to stand for election because we have 5 vacancies for Ordinary Members of Council.

If you did not manage to renew your SCL membership for 2026 before the deadline of March 31, you can easily rejoin via a link in the right sidebar of your dashboard.

The Judging Panel of the SCL Hudson Prize has announced the following results for the 2025 competition.

A gallery of photos from the SCL Annual London Lunch on February 6th 2026 is available for viewing and downloading.

 

 

 

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Membership

The Society welcomes new members. You are eligible if you are interested and professionally involved in construction law. Members come from all sectors of the construction industry, for example, architects, engineers, surveyors, contractors, developers, solicitors, barristers, arbitrators and experts.

We offer three types of membership: Ordinary Membership (Premium or Discounted), Junior Membership and Overseas eMembership. See a comparison of the different types here.

Benefits of membership include: meetings, published papers, a monthly newsletter, member-only content on the website, discounts and much more.

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Presentations

The Honourable Mrs Justice O’Farrell DBE and others
Slides from the conference in Leeds
Lars Gladhaug and Courtney Burrell-Eade - Keating Chambers
Slides from a talk to SCL Astra in Leeds
Seb Oram
A talk to SCL in Reading
Simon Whitfield
Slides from a talk to SCL in Manchester