At the start of this year NEC published the third set of amendments to the NEC4 suite of contracts. In this Insight, we look at some of the key changes.
Free legal advice may sound like the start of another lawyer joke, yet here we are: we’ve developed an easy-to-follow ‘NEC 3 & 4 FOR NEWBIES’ series designed to see you build – rather than billed – more by the hour. That’s because less legalese can mean less legal fees when advice is quicker to decipher. The contract management process can be complicated and time-consuming; more than that though, it can distract you from delivering projects on time and within budget. The good news is that at NSDV, we’re all about getting to the point without viciously poking you with it.
The September 2020 decision by the Scottish Court of Session in Van Oord UK v. Dragados UK [2020] CSOH 87, which has now been appealed. The dispute centred on the ability of Aberdeen.