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Strike-out for delay due to plaintiffs' strategic targeting of insurance policies
June 2018The decision in Honahan & anor v McInerney Construction Limited & ors [2018] IEHC 311 concerned the engagement by the plaintiffs of a number of parties for the purchase of a site and construction of a dwelling in February 1996. It is the latest in a string of recent applications to strike-out High Court actions… Read More >
Beale & Company advises Ramboll on acquisition of UK rail signalling specialist DEG Signal
June 2018Beale & Company acted for engineering, design and consultancy company Ramboll on its acquisition of DEG Signal. Partner, James Hutchinson, who advised on this acquisition provides further comment on this successful case. To read the full article, please click on the link below.
Beale & Company acts on the sale of MFD to Thornton Tomasetti
June 2018Beale & Company acted for the shareholders of MFD, a UK-based security consultancy, on its sale to Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering consultancy behind the new US Embassy in London. Partner, James Hutchinson, who advised on the sale provides further comment on this successful case. For more information, please click on the link below.
Construction Update: June 2018
June 2018This month, as part of our regular updates on interesting legal developments James Vernon looks at two recent decisions concerning different but relevant issues for the construction industry. Successfully challenging a winding up petition issued to enforce an adjudication award: Victory House General Partner Limited v RGB P + C Ltd [2018] EWHC 113; and… Read More >
Reports from the Courts
June 2018Our regular round up of the court decisions of most interest to construction comes from Andrew Croft and Ben Spannuth including: the first case to consider the interplay between project insurance and subcontractors, which confirms that any express agreement under a subcontract may override wording in a project insurance policy; and another case considering the… Read More >
Arbitration News: Memorials or pleadings? A cultural conflict
May 2018A leading construction QC believes “memorials are suggested in 40% of construction arbitrations. 10 years ago this was never the case”. The clash of memorials and pleadings is a cultural one and has been one of intense debate in the international arbitration sector. What is the difference between memorials and pleadings? The real difference between… Read More >
Periodic Payments in Catastrophic Injury Cases – A welcome development for Insurers
May 2018Legislation allowing the Irish courts to make Periodic Payment Orders (“PPOs”) has been almost eight years in the making. They were first called for in the 2010 Report of the High Court Working Group on Medical Negligence and Periodic Payments. In this article, Niamh Loughran and Cian O’Gorman discuss this new legislation and how it… Read More >
Insurers seeking to join themselves to proceedings – a new development?
May 2018It seems unusual that an insurer would actually seek to join itself to a set of existing proceedings. However such an application was the subject of a recent High Court decision delivered on 19 April 2018. In this article, Sarah Conroy and Jennifer Havard explain the decision and discuss the impact this will have on… Read More >
New UAE Federal Arbitration Law
May 2018The long anticipated UAE Federal Arbitration Law is issued by the President of the United Arab Emirates. Earlier this year it was announced that the UAE Federal National Council had approved a draft UAE Federal Arbitration Law and that the draft law had been submitted to the President of the UAE for approval. In an… Read More >
The Dreamvar Appeal: Material changes to the exposure of solicitors caught up in fraudulent property transactions
May 2018Conveyancers and their Insurers will note material changes to their claim exposures following this week’s Court of Appeal decision writes Stephen Reilly, Partner, and Lisa Henty, Associate. The Appeal decision means that the seller’s solicitors, as well as the buyer’s solicitors, are now squarely exposed to liability in the case of an impostor property seller.