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About Practical Law Construction
Practical Law UK Practice Note 3-383-1079 (Approx. 5 pages)
About Practical Law Construction
| Maintained • England, Wales |
A description of the Practical Law Construction service.
Practical Law Construction provides up-to-date and practical guidance on construction and engineering law and practice, covering both contentious and non-contentious areas of practice.
Coverage
Practical Law Construction covers, or covers the construction and engineering aspects of:
- Adjudication and adjudication enforcement.
- Building and engineering contracts, including international construction contracts.
- Collateral warranties and third parties.
- Dispute resolution, including alternative dispute resolution (ADR), litigation and arbitration.
- Development documents, including agreements for lease, development agreements and licences.
- Health and safety, specifically CDM 2015.
- Insurance.
- Procurement and public procurement.
- Professional appointments and liabilities.
- Real estate and project finance.
- Regeneration and the environment.
- Restructuring and insolvency.
- Statutory liabilities and taxation, including building safety, building regulations and party wall issues.
Resources
Like all Practical Law practice areas, Practical Law Construction provides:
- Legal updates alerting you to developments in law, regulation and practice, as they happen. You can receive these by email and RSS or view online. See Construction: legal updates.
- Practice notes with clear and up-to-date explanations of law and practice. We consult primary sources, practitioners and leading texts, distilling the principles so you can advise with confidence. See Practice notes: Construction.
- Standard documents with integrated drafting notes, created by our team of experts. Start with a market standard template you know to be up-to-date, including agreements, letters and forms. See Standard documents and drafting notes: Construction.
- Standard clauses with drafting notes for use in common commercial agreements. See Standard clauses and drafting notes: Construction.
- Checklists to help you ensure you have everything covered. Quick reference reminders of the law as it applies in practice. See Checklists: Construction.
Practical Law Construction also provides:
- Ask query service. Our team can help you find resources, expand on what we have written and act as a sounding board on a tricky legal point. You can also see what others ask us and join in the discussion. See Ask: Construction.
- A podcast, The Construction Briefing. It is an alternative way of learning about key developments in construction law, with the Practical Law Construction editorial team discussing some of the wider issues those developments raise. See The Construction Briefing podcast.
- Trackers keeping you up to date on developments and what to expect next, including:
- a general construction industry tracker, monitoring the progress of selected pieces of UK legislation and other litigation and infrastructure developments of particular interest to construction practitioners. It includes links to underlying source materials. See Construction tracker;
- a dedicated construction climate change tracker, identifying climate change initiatives of relevance to construction and engineering practitioners. See Construction climate change tracker; and
- a tracker monitoring when those parts of the Building Safety Act 2022 that are relevant to construction practitioners will come into force. See Building Safety Act 2022: construction provisions tracker.
- Articles from PLC Magazine, the leading monthly magazine for business lawyers. See the latest edition.
- Multi-jurisdictional guides on construction and projects law and regulation around the world, featuring country Q&As and cross-border analysis articles. See Construction and Projects Multi-jurisdictional Guide. This is just one of Practical Law's Global Guides.
- Resources for new joiners offering key resources for trainees joining a construction and engineering department and for newly qualified construction lawyers. See Resources for those new to construction law.
Current awareness
Our team of experts monitor and review thousands of sources daily to identify and analyse developments that are of practical significance to lawyers.
Construction legal updates cover:
- Cases from the Technology and Construction Court (TCC), together with relevant judgments from other courts, including the Court of Session.
- Changes to construction legislation.
- Consultation papers relevant to construction lawyers in practice.
- Government announcements, policy papers and documents.
- Industry publications and guidance that may impact on the legal sector or on drafting construction documents.
- New or revised standard form contracts, including from JCT, FIDIC and NEC.
A typical legal update includes a summary and an analysis of the practical impact of the development. Related content will link to source materials (including cases), other relevant legal updates and practice notes.
How to access current awareness
We publish current awareness email alerts covering all the latest developments, which you can sign up for by clicking on the "Alerts" link at the top right-hand corner of any page on the Practical Law website and selecting "Create Alert".
Our customisation features allow you to combine legal updates from across different practice areas and select just the topics you need. You can also set your preferred timing, frequency and level of detail for alerts.
You can also:
- View the most recent updates on the Construction homepage.
- Search for past legal updates from any page of the website.
- Sign up to receive updates by RSS as they are published.
For more information and guidance, see our Quick Reference Guide: How to set up alerts for documents and latest developments.
Cases and legislation
You can link through directly from any reference to case law or legislation in our maintained resources to the underlying source.
Depending on your subscriptions, you can choose either to view the case report or statutory provision on our sister service, Westlaw UK, or through other providers including The National Archives, BAILII and legislation.gov.uk.