Construction claims and contract law, for practitioners
Reported judgments, solutions to 250+ legal/contractual issues, FIDIC clause by clause guidance, calculators and CPD for practitioners who prepare, defend and determine construction claims.
Society of Construction ClaimsSpecialists InternationalSince 2009
Construction claims and contract law, for practitioners
Reported judgments with the reasoning in full, clause-by-clause guidance to the standard forms, calculators for time and money, and continuing professional development. Written for claims specialists, quantity surveyors and construction lawyers.
Certification programmesThe Society's ECCCS, ECCDA and ECCCM programmes are delivered at sccsinternational.org
Contents
What is published here
A working reference for claims specialists, quantity surveyors and construction lawyers: the legal position on the problems that arise on real projects, the judgments behind it, and the tools to act on them.
250+ legal and contractual issues, each answered with the governing rule and the authorities behind it.
Technology and Construction Court judgments from 2003 onwards, each opened with a plain summary of what was decided.
A full law report on each case: the facts, the issue, the decision and the practice points that follow from it.
An interactive process flow for each case, mapping the reasoning step by step from the dispute to the ruling.
Navigators for all twenty clauses of the Red Book: the claims, the risks and the time bars each one carries.
720 self-test questions taken from the judgments themselves, to check how well a decision has landed.
Calculators, converters and working tools for delay, quantum, payment, retention and the notices that go with them.
Letters to adapt and send, covering contractual notifications, claims letters and formal legal notice.
Introduction to Construction Law in twelve lessons, written for people coming to the subject for the first time.
Today's filing, five questions on a reported judgment, the day's legal analysis and the decisions that change what a notice has to do.
Top of the desk
All of today's filing
United KingdomThe competition regulator puts bid rigging in public procurement at 1bn to 3.5bn pounds a year and asks for losing bids to be keptThe Competition and Markets Authority published two reports on Monday 8 September 2026.
Filed 9 September 2026
Tech and AIAn OpenAI system claims Navier-Stokes in 88 hours, and the mathematician it raced goes publicOpenAI published on 8 September 2026 a claimed resolution of the Navier-Stokes existence.
Filed 9 September 2026
Middle EastThe Red Sea destination's off-grid utilities reach commercial operation on a 340 MW solar plant and a 1,227 MWh batteryRed Sea Global and ACWA Power announced on 6 September 2026 the project commercial operation date.
Filed 9 September 2026
WorldThe UK bans settlement goods, calls the occupation unlawful, and Israel orders the British consulate in Jerusalem closedThe United Kingdom announced on Tuesday 8 September 2026 that it will ban the import of goods.
Filed 9 September 2026Ninety seconds
The Daily Knowledge Check
Five questions on claims and contract law. Every answer opens onto the authority behind it.
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Three to read
One reported judgment from the Technology and Construction Court, and two stories from this morning that are not already above.
Reported judgmentOne Hyde Park Limited v Laing O’Rourke Construction South Limited [2026] EWHC 155 (TCC)
The freeholder of the One Hyde Park development in Knightsbridge sued the contractor that built.
6 minutes
United KingdomRail freight must grow 40 per cent by 2040, with construction goods up 45 per cent, as the Railways Bill enters Lords committee
The Secretary of State for Transport told the Commons in a written statement on Monday 8 September.
3 minutes
WorldAmerican forces strike Iranian tankers off Jask and Kharg, and Tehran says it seized an American underwater drone
United States forces struck several Iranian tankers tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
3 minutesLegal analysis
ABC v Huntercombe: an employer's vicarious liability to outsiders does not pass under TUPE The point of law, 8 September 2026A hospital operator went into liquidation with a large insurance deductible and more than fifty similar claims waiting.
All legal analysisTerm of the day
Privity of contract Contract formation and interpretationPrivity means that contractual rights and obligations generally belong to the parties to the contract. Third-party rights legislation, collateral warranties and assignments may create routes outside that general rule.
The full glossaryDecided in the last seven days
The risk board
Four rulings that change what a notice, a bid or a bond has to do. Each one opens the full report.
Both Houses approve the building safety levy amendments three weeks before the levy starts on 1 October
The Lords approved the draft Building Safety Levy (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2026 at 15:48 on 7 September and a Commons committee agreed them at 18:20.
Communities and Faith, 8 September 2026ProcurementNo return to PFI, but more public private partnerships where they pay, the Treasury tells peers
Answering a Lords question on 7 September, the Government said public private partnerships will be used beyond neighbourhood health centres and public estate decarbonisation only where they serve the Exchequer, that the National Wealth Fund holds 27.8 billion pounds and is meant to release 100 billion pounds over five years, and that the ten year infrastructure strategy commits some 725 billion pounds.
Lord Wilson of Sedgefield, 8 September 2026InsolvencyCreditors approve seven Ardmore CVAs and the chairman says the group is done with main contracting
The property companies left standing after Ardmore's construction arm went into administration have company voluntary arrangements approved, according to the group and its restructuring advisers.
Ardmore group, 7 September 2026DisclosureThe developer admits the wiki incident and says the reporting standard does not exist
An artificial intelligence company has conceded that nobody has yet written the rule for when a model going wrong has to be declared.
co-founder and chief executive of Transluce, 6 September 2026