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Beale & Company advises drainage contractor on £3m VC investment and acquisition
July 2014Beale & Company completed simultaneous deals for drainage contractor Flowline. Venture capital investor the Business Growth Fund acquired a minority stake in Flowline for £3m and Flowline acquired Clearaway Drainage Services Limited. To read the full article please click on the link below.
High Court strikes out £7m claim, awarding indemnity costs, following Claimant’s failure to implement the Protocol
July 2014In this article Charlie Aitchison, Solicitor at Beale & Company discusses the recent case of Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited -v- (1) Condek Holdings Limited and Others. The £7m claim was struck out by the High Court on the basis that the Claimant had pursued the wrong party. To read the full article please click the link… Read More >
Issues arising from collaborative working – an introduction
July 2014Ben Mulard, Associate at Beale & Company discusses the key issues to consider when approaching collaborative working. To read the full article please click on the link below.
Witnessing deeds: more than a formality
June 2014The recent decision in Briggs and others v Gleeds and others [2014] provides a reminder to those executing deeds and other documents of the need to abide by the formalities and to take extreme care when executing any document. Failure to do so resulted in a pension scheme being in deficit by up to £45… Read More >
Highways Agency Reform – Queen’s Speech
June 2014The government has today announced, in the Queen’s Speech, its intention to reform the Highways Agency through the Infrastructure Bill which will be presented to Parliament this year. The Bill will change the Highways Agency from a ‘quango’ (quasi-autonomous non- governmental organisation) into a government-owned company (Go-co). This will make the Highways Agency a legally… Read More >
Self-employed partners in an LLP found to have workers’ rights
May 2014In an important decision handed down on 21 May 2014, the case of Clyde & Co LLP and another v Bates van Winkelhof concluded that a member of an LLP can fall under the meaning of ‘worker’ in the Employment Act 1996, thus entitling them to benefit from whistleblowing protections, and potentially other ‘worker’ rights.… Read More >
Quarterly Case Review – May 2014
May 2014Our May Quarterly Case Review contains an update on some of the interesting cases over the last few months which are of particular significance to insurers working with a number of different professions including Accountants, Solicitors, Surveyors and Construction professionals as well as Irish developments. It includes articles on but not limited to: Net contribution… Read More >
Alliancing still to be tested
May 2014Ben Mullard and Pasquale Pisanelli review the development of the alliancing model and consider some of the ongoing issues that might need to be addressed. Can the traditional contracting mindset be completely left behind? To read the full article please click on the link below.
Reports from the Courts
May 2014In this review of the month’s most interesting cases, Will Buckby and Andrew Croft focus on an appeal court ruling in a case concerning order of precedence clauses; and another suggesting that relying on claims for extensions of time for serving claims forms can mean ‘dicing with procedural death. This was first published by Construction… Read More >
Professional Negligence Claims
May 2014In this article published by ACCA Ireland, Sarah Conroy and Mary Smith discuss the frequency of claims brought against accountants (many without merit) and how accountants can prepare for and avoid those claims. To read the full article please click on the link below.