Allocation of costs in multiparty arbitrations: a critical approach of English law and the ICC Rules of Arbitration
There is some skepticism about the timing and measurement criteria of costs in multiparty arbitrations. The trend in the ICC arbitration practice is that the award of parties’ costs are...Read more
Dimitrios Athanasakis
Vice President - Corporate Counsel, Hill International N.V., Netherlands
Cash is King in the UK Construction Industry
The coronation of the King has long since passed and all celebrations are complete but in these straightened times cash is still the undisputed king in the UK construction industry....Read more
Anthony Philpott
Barrister, Barrister (Direct Public Access and Authorised Litigator) UK - AP Legal Direct , UK
Arbitration: Salient Features of Multiparty Disputes
Multiparty disputes stand at a watershed. There is a widespread scholarly scepticism regarding the set up and conduct of arbitration. The worlds of multiparty disputes and business look towards each...Read more
Dimitrios Athanasakis
Vice President - Corporate Counsel, Hill International N.V., Netherlands
The Roads to Freedom of Contract
John Paul Sartre’s philosophical novels that make up the trilogy of “the Roads to Freedom”, first screened by the BBC in the 1970’s, were given a complete re-run recently, all...Read more
Anthony Philpott
Barrister, 10 King's Bench Walk, Temple, UK
Both sides now - The return of Arbitration in construction disputes in the United Kingdom?
This summer saw the re-release of Joni Mitchell’s 1970’s back catalogue of albums and outtakes of recordings, that included her most famous ballad “Both Sides Now”. Punk rock heralded the...Read more
Anthony Philpott
Barrister, 10 King's Bench Walk, Temple, UK
He Who Pays The Piper – The Independence of Experts in UK Construction Disputes and Civil Procedure Rule 35
After a criminal fraud trial over carbon credits collapsed and was abandoned in 2019, because an expert witness had no expertise and no qualifications, the Law Society Gazette announced on...Read more
Anthony Philpott
Barrister, Barrister (Direct Public Access and Authorised Litigator) UK - AP Legal Direct , UK
Staying the Court Enforcement of a UK Construction Adjudication on the Grounds of Fraud, Where There are Company Voluntary Arrangements or Where There is Insolvency
The introduction of Alternative Dispute Resolution in the form of Adjudication to resolve construction disputes in the United Kingdom was meant to allow for unpaid building contractors and sub-contractors to...Read more
Anthony Philpott
Barrister, Barrister (Direct Public Access and Authorised Litigator) UK - AP Legal Direct , UK
Foreign Court Judgements and International Arbitration Awards Enforcement
The economic cooperation and integration among various countries is constantly and inevitably increasing in the era of world globalization. The continued commercial expansion is unavoidably accompanied by civil and commercial...Read more
Natalya Seyalova
Sr. Legal Counsel AEM, HeidelbergCement AG, Germany
‘Right of Access to the Site Under FIDIC – How To Properly Cooperate in the Investment Process’
Contemporary infrastructural investment projects are characterized by the increasing complexity of innovative technological and architectural solutions of the objects being the main subject of implemented undertakings. The high level...Read more
Grzegorz Pawlowski
Legal and Corporate Affairs Director, DCT Gdansk SA, Poland
Building Information Modeling or BIM: A case study for an office development project in Paris
(1) Building Information Modeling (BIM) is now an established construction industry practice across the world.
The BIM process has garnered strong support of both professionals and policy makers. Lots...Read more
Stephane Gaux
Head of the development and property management department of BNP Real Estate, BNP Real Estate, France