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Who can forget the harrowing images of fire ravaging Grenfell Tower in the early hours of Wednesday 14 June 2017, or the shocked incomprehension on the firefighters’ faces as they rushed towards the blaze, which having started as a seemingly innocuous kitchen fire on the fourth floor would spread so . ....
Four years on from the Grenfell disaster, Tristan Wark, senior associate at Goodman Derrick and a leaseholder in a building with cladding-related fire safety issues, calls on the industry to do more to alleviate leaseholder suffering. ....
Tristan Wark NO: ‘LAWYERS,’ Kanye West tweeted in 2020. ‘The first thing that changes about record deals is actually lawyers. We need plain English contracts. A lawyers [sic] role is to IMPROVE deals… not charge for contracts we cannot understand or track. Rewrite deals to be understandable from FIRST READ.’ Kanye is no fan of legalese. Legalese is defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as ‘language used by lawyers and in legal documents that is difficult for ordinary people to understand’. Whether it is the hundreds of Latin terms that still pervade all legal practice areas (and that most lawyers cannot even pronounce correctly), or the ‘heretofore’, ‘herein’, ‘hereto’, ‘hereof’, ‘hereinafter’, ‘whereas’, and ‘forthwith’, lawyers still often produce contracts that are full of legal jargon and challenging for a non-lawyer to understand. ....
By Elizabeth Hopkirk2021-02-11T07:00:00+00:00 Former RIBA president accuses government of offering ‘second-rate loans’ to people in dangerous buildings The government has been warned the building safety measures it announced yesterday could have a string of unintended consequences. A tax on developers could inhibit new schemes and push up property prices, while the Building Safety Fund application process is so complex it is deterring building owners who urgently want to improve safety for their residents, said Katherine Metcalfe, legal director at law firm Pinsent Masons. There was also widespread anger at how many people were left out of the Robert Jenrick’s package of support which will see the government forward-fund the cost of cladding repairs alone, and only for buildings over 18m. ....