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Building Green: Plug-in Solar, Smart Meter Digitalisation, And Wind Initiatives In Construction

The UK's ambitions for sustainable energy are driving transformative changes across sectors, with the construction industry increasingly recognised as a pivotal player in shaping a greener...

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Womble Bond Dickinson

Skilled Worker Or Service Supplier Visa For Construction Work?

The UK construction industry faces a significant worker shortage, creating opportunities for skilled foreign workers through two distinct visa pathways.

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Latitude Law

Eiger Funding (PCC) Ltd V Ridge And Partners LLP – A Cautionary Tale For Monitoring Surveyors And Lenders

The project concerned the conversion and refurbishment of 60 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, to 122 residential flats, where the claimant, Eiger Funding (PCC) Limited (“Eiger”) loaned £12.9m to fund the development...

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Project Nutcracker: Eight Ideas Adopted By Government. What Next?

Catherine Howard reviews eight planning reform ideas from her Project Nutcracker series now adopted by Government, comments on other proposals which have unsurprisingly had less mileage, and considers what comes next...

United Kingdom Government

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Navigating Nature Risks: What General Counsel And Board Members Need To Know

United Kingdom Environment

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Gowling WLG

Service Charges And Leaseholders: Your Legal Rights Explained (14 April 2026)

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Duncan Lewis & Co Solicitors

Latest Developments — Renters’ Rights Act 2025

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Squire Patton Boggs LLP

Baltimore Wharf SLP v Ballymore Properties Ltd

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Fenwick Elliott LLP

Major Reform On Late Payments Will Change Construction Payment And Disputes

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Womble Bond Dickinson

Acting For Lenders: What "On Panel” Actually Means For Your Conveyancing Transaction

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Construction Products Reform

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Arbitral Confidentiality Vs. Specific Disclosure Applications Before The English Courts Where There Is A Suspected 'Sham' Arbitration

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Fenwick Elliott LLP

UK Property Transactions: How Expanding Sanctions Law Creates Hidden Risks

United Kingdom Government

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Barnes Law

Construction Challenges In Scaling Renewable Infrastructure

United Kingdom Energy

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Cittadinanza Italiana Jure SanguinisGuida alla Nuova Legge 2025 (Parte 1) (Video)

United Kingdom Immigration

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Latitude Law

Analysis Of Spring 2026 UK Immigration Rule Changes For Employers

United Kingdom Immigration

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Lewis Silkin

Tech Predictions For 2026: The Year Ahead Promises To Be Anything But Predictable

United Kingdom Technology

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Lewis Silkin

What Does A Typical Day Look Like For A Case Manager, When Working With CoP Clients? (Video)

United Kingdom Law Performance

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Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Boilerplate Bites: Notices, Termination And Consequences Of Termination (Video)

United Kingdom Commercial

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Travers Smith LLP

The Energy Nexus: Structuring Integrated Power And Data Centre Infrastructure

The data centre industry faces a defining challenge: securing reliable, resilient and cost-effective power at unprecedented scale.

United Kingdom Energy

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

FIDIC Notice Of Contractor Claim Under Sub-Clause 20.1 Required Where Variation Procedure Not Followed

Last year, I wrote in International Quarterly, Issue 40 about a recent Privy Council decision relating to a FIDIC-based contract and said it was a rare treat...

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Fenwick Elliott LLP

Time To Pay Up? UK Government Proposes Ban On Retention Payments In Construction Contracts

On 24 March 2026, the UK Government published the response to its 2025 Late Payment Consultation, which ran from 31 July to 23 October 2025. The response, entitled Time to Pay Up, sets out a package of measures...

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Gowling WLG

Adjudication Update: 30 Years On (Video)

2026 marks 30 years since the Housing Grants Act created a statutory right to adjudicate. In our first webinar of the year, Fenwick Elliott’s Claire King was joined by barrister Daniel Churcher...

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Fenwick Elliott LLP

Death Of The Retention?

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Macfarlanes LLP

Co-Living: Opportunity Within Complex Regulatory Landscape

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Macfarlanes LLP

Real Burdens: A Real Problem For Rural Development?

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Difficulties With Oral Contracts – Court Of Session Provides Guidance

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

A Hat-trick Of Commercial Property Deals

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Rothera Bray

Restrictive Covenant Discharged To Facilitate Residential Development

United Kingdom Real Estate

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RDJ LLP

Government Concedes Buckinghamshire Data Centre Judicial Review: Implications For Data Centres

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Gowling WLG

Enforcement Powers Of The Building Safety Regulator: Key Lessons From Recent Case Law

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Gowling WLG

Contractual Control Rights: How To Prepare For The New Disclosure Regime

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Operational Resilience For Critical Infrastructure

United Kingdom Government

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Womble Bond Dickinson

Government Concedes Buckinghamshire Data Centre Judicial Review: Implications For Data Centres

The Government has conceded a judicial review challenge to its previous decision to grant planning permission for a hyperscale data centre at Iver, Buckinghamshire, with the High Court likely to quash the permission by consent.

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Gowling WLG

Enforcement Powers Of The Building Safety Regulator: Key Lessons From Recent Case Law

Dame Judith Hackitt's Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety following the Grenfell Tower tragedy highlighted that regulatory oversight was inadequate and enforcement powers were "often not pursued"...

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Gowling WLG

Contractual Control Rights: How To Prepare For The New Disclosure Regime

Draft regulations introduce a new public register of contractual control rights over land in England and Wales, imposing major new disclosure duties on developers - making early preparation essential.

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Operational Resilience For Critical Infrastructure

Infrastructure is getting smarter as it becomes more connected to IT systems, remote sensors and AI. This increases its utility but exposes it to new cyber and operational risks.

United Kingdom Government

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Womble Bond Dickinson

Beyond The Battlefield: Private Equity, PPPs, And The Future Of UK Defence Infrastructure?

United Kingdom Government

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Data Centres And The NSIP Regime: A Significant Shift In The Consenting Landscape

Since our previous article on the evolution of planning consent for data centres, there has been a major development in how large‑scale data centre projects may be consented in England.

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Womble Bond Dickinson

Legal Terms Explained: Expert Determination

Expert determination is an alternative dispute resolution process in which an independent expert, rather than a judge or arbitral tribunal, is appointed to resolve a dispute...

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Top 5 Construction Cases Of 2025

In 2025, there were many interesting and relevant court cases in the construction industry. In this article, we highlight some of the key commercial lessons that can be taken from them.

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Construction Products Reform White Paper Published: Key Headlines

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its Construction Products Reform White Paper...

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Gowling WLG

TCC Confirms: Stopping An On-demand Bond Call Is (Still) Nearly Impossible

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Gowling WLG

Smash And Grab (AKA Payment Notice Dispute) Adjudications: Where Are We Now?

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Fenwick Elliott LLP

UK Biodiversity Net Gain: The Requirements, The Context, And What Businesses Need To Know

United Kingdom Environment

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A&O Shearman

Planning And Infrastructure Act 2025 – Update On Implementation

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Biodiversity Net Gain For Minor, Medium And Brownfield Development, And NSIPs

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Womble Bond Dickinson

Providence Building Services Ltd v Hexagon Housing Association Ltd

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Fenwick Elliott LLP

CR Construction (UK) Company Ltd v Barclays Bank PLC

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Fenwick Elliott LLP

Legal Terms Explained: Float In Construction Contracts

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Legal Developments In Construction Law: February 2026

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Mayer Brown

Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2: What The Third Progress Report Tells Us, And What's Next

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Gowling WLG

Gearing Up In A Challenging Legislative Environment For The Rural Sector

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Trend-spotting For The Senior Living Sector In 2026

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Travers Smith LLP

Procedural Failures Fatal To Variation Claims Under FIDIC Yellow Book: Uniform Building Contractors V Water And Sewerage Authority Of Trinidad & Tobago

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

High Court Confirms Assignees Can Refer Construction Disputes To Adjudication

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Gowling WLG

Court Confirms The Right To Adjudication In Construction Contracts Extends To Assignees

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

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Real Estate & Projects Newsletter & Vlog - May 2025 (Video)

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Devonshires

Closing The Books: Managing Final Accounts In JCT And NEC Contracts (Video)

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Fenwick Elliott LLP

Biodiversity Net Gain - 12 Months In (Video)

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Gowling WLG

Top 5 Construction Cases Of 2024 (Video)

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Navigating The Complexity Of Succession Planning: Lessons From A Case Study (Video)

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IR Global

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