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Financial impacts of statutory trusts in the building and construction industry
Members may be interested in the report on Financial impacts of statutory trusts in the building and construction industry prepared for the NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation (April 2019).
Defects on large-scale construction projects – what you need to know following recent cases including Opal and Lacrosse
Paper presented by Michael Whitten QC and Andrew Downie of MTECC on 28 May 2019
Fiocco Report on Security of Payment Laws in the WA Building and Construction Industry
SoCLA is grateful for the feedback received from its members which has contributed to its submission on the Fiocco Report on WA Security of Payment Laws. The Fiocco Report can be accessed here and SoCLA's submission can be accessed below.
Constructive Acceleration in the UAE: A Matter of Contract, Law or Good Faith?
A highly commended paper in the Student Brooking Prize 2018 by Stefan Pislevik.
The Impact of the Government Procurement Agreement to Procurement Laws in Australia
This paper analyses the impact of the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) within the World Trade Organisation (WTO), procurement legislation in construction law in Australia. This paper proposes a study of the relationship between the entities (Australian Government and GPA) outlining how and why the GPA affects the Commonwealth Procurement Rules (CPR’s). A Let's Connect submissions by Maike Barton.
Subjective objectivity – As built critical path analysis
This paper looks at the different methods of delay analysis defined by the Delay and Disruption protocol 2nd edition, some of their issues, and ‘subjective objectivity’ and bias by reference to Nobel Prize winner Dr Daniel Kahneman and his work on ‘Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’. A Let's Connect Submission by Tommy Wakefield-Smith