Our article on International Construction Arbitration published by Lawyer Monthly Magazine
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Our article on International Construction Arbitration published by Lawyer Monthly Magazine
Please review the full article here: Lawyer Monthly Article
Force Majeure is a French phrase commonly used in commercial contracts to describe exceptional circumstances or events affecting the contract, parties obligations and that are completely outside the parties’ control. Such events may include, acts of God, war, strike, epidemic, riot etc. Black’s Law Dictionary describes force majeure as ‘ An event or effect that…
On 7 November 2024 Equitas and ATCEA (Association of Turkish Consulting Engineers and Architects) jointly held the “Claims and Dispute Resolution in FIDIC Contracts with Practical Examples” seminar in Ankara, Turkiye. Participants at the event had the opportunity to discuss firsthand case experiences with Metehan Çağlar Sonbahar, a FIDIC Certified Adjudicator. For details please click…
Our article published in the CIOB magazine – Global Construction Review.
Summary of Judgment [2025] EWHC 2173 (TCC) Background The parties entered into a JCT Design and Build contract on 10 November 2022 for the construction of a leisure and retail centre in Bishop Auckland. After completion, disputes arose concerning payment applications, entitlement to extensions of time (EOT), and liquidated damages (LADs). The dispute was referred…
Earlier this year the ICC Dispute Resolution Services published the preliminary dispute resolution figures for 2021. It is reported that in 2021 the ICC International Court of Arbitration registered 853 new cases in total, as compared to 946 new cases in 2020 which was the highest number since 2016. Despite the drop in case numbers, …
The Convention of Mediation On 07 August 2019 the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation was signed by the members of 46 countries at an official signing ceremony in Singapore including, Turkey, Qatar, the United states, China [1]. A full list of signatories is at the end of this post. The…