Richard Wade is a partner and head of the Construction Planning & Environmental Team at Blake Morgan, specialising in construction and development, procurement and disputes.
Over the last three decades, we have seen increasingly widespread use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), as parties with disputes have sought swifter and less expensive…
Rising professional indemnity insurance premiums and restrictions on cover are preventing construction companies from taking on projects, and could delay work to improve the safety of…
Net-zero carbon buildings have been high on several successive governments' wish list for at least a decade.
The introduction of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 ("CIGA") in June 2020 was one of the many preventative measures taken by the UK Government…
Today the UK economy has been officially declared to be in recession, with figures from the Office for National Statistics showing GDP fell 20.4% in the…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week promised to "build, build, build" by injecting billions into public projects to ease the UK through the aftermath of the…