7/1/2025 2:40:57 PM Reflections on NFTMO 2025: Banners, banter and big ideas By Sarah Patrice Well, I’ve just about recovered from another brilliant NFTMO Annual Conference - and yes, I still haven’t figured out (or is that refuse...
6/30/2025 9:25:01 AM Reflections from NFTMO 2025 – Building safety and management: communication breakdown (and other fire hazards) By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Elizabeth Massey If you attended our session at the NFTMO conference this year, you’ll know it quickly turned into something of a legal surgery - and we...
6/24/2025 2:00:03 PM Reviewing the Regulator: Is the Building Safety Regulator fit for purpose? By Lorna Kenyon-Pain The Building Safety Regulator was set up under the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022). One of its key purposes is to regulate...
5/15/2025 3:29:12 PM Do you know the code? By Joanne Wright The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s ‘Code of Practice for the remediation of residential buildings’ (the Code)...
3/13/2025 12:28:08 PM Bridging the gap – Two coroners’ comments on window restrictors By Elizabeth Massey Lorna Kenyon-Pain Many housing and care providers will seek to mitigate the risk of falls from windows by installing window restrictors. However, the legal...
2/27/2025 1:30:11 PM Clear response from Government to findings of Phase 2 of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry By Joanne Wright Angela Rayner made an announcement yesterday in Parliament (26 February 2025) introducing the Government’s response to the Phase 2 Report...
2/20/2025 12:31:56 PM High Court examines new parts of the Building Safety regime By Paul Slinger In a recent case (381 Southwark Park Road RTM Company Limited & Ors v Click St Andrews Ltd & Anr), the High Court has given valuable...
12/18/2024 4:19:55 PM Remediation Acceleration Plan: the MHCLG's answer to cladding remediation concerns By Joanne Wright Paul Slinger Verity Cartwright You may be aware that on 2 December 2024, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) published a Remediation...
11/20/2024 2:19:26 PM JCT Measured Term Contract 2024 – what’s new? By Naomi Dowthwaite The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) has now published the Measured Term Contract 2024 (MTC 2024). This follows updates to many other...
6/21/2024 2:49:23 PM Seven years after the Grenfell tragedy - reaching their limit… How far do the leaseholder protections stretch? By Joanne Wright Paul Slinger The latest on remediation orders and remediation contribution orders The first contested remediation contribution order case (under...
5/8/2024 12:08:36 PM JCT DB 2024 - what’s new and how will it affect my existing contract forms? By Naomi Dowthwaite The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) has now published its first contracts in the 2024 suite: the Design and Build Contract 2024 (DB 2024)...
4/23/2024 11:22:24 AM Care home operator fined £400,000 by HSE following death of vulnerable resident By Precious Mealia A care home operator in Scotland was fined £400,000 due to safety breaches resulting in the death of a resident. Susan Greens, 95, was...