Things are not always what they seem. While in one sense, the UK is busy disconnecting itself from Europe with the advent of Brexit, in another sense it is quite literally becoming more connected than ever through the growth of the electricity interconnector market. This post takes a look at this fast rising market and considers some of the construction risks such projects may face. Continue reading
It has been a few years since I wrote about an adjudicator failing to “exhaust his jurisdiction“, but it cropped up recently in NKT Cables A/S v SP Power Systems Ltd, where Lady Wolff held that the adjudicator had failed to “exhaust his jurisdiction”. She also found that a slip rule could be implied (for the first time in Scotland), but that the adjudicator exceeded the scope of that implied term when he amended his decision. Continue reading
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon:
“And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, and in green underwood and cover, blossom by blossom the spring begins.”
In keeping with the time of year, we decided to spring clean and have changed the format of our quarterly review. What follows are some of the more interesting decisions affecting construction and engineering practitioners during the first quarter of 2017. Continue reading
