Jun 21, 2024 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...
May 08, 2024 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)...
Apr 23, 2024 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...
Feb 20, 2024 Riding to compliance: learning lessons on fire safety By Precious Mealia The owner of an equestrian yard has been fined £5,000 by Oxfordshire County Council’s Fire and Rescue Service for being in breach of a...
Dec 05, 2023 CQC prosecutes two care providers for failing to protect residents from the risk of avoidable harm By Precious Mealia In our regulatory round-up ebriefings, we have been discussing for some time the steady rise in the number of prosecutions brought by the...
Nov 07, 2023 Latest on the leaseholder protections under the Building Safety Act 2022 By Joanne Wright Well, quite a bit has happened since my last post, Help, I really need a fix! ‘Leaseholder protections’ is a convenient shorthand for...
Aug 18, 2023 Higher-risk building registration - Don't forget the deadline! By Elizabeth Massey The regulatory team at Anthony Collins has been paying close attention to developments in building safety law, most notably under the...
Apr 06, 2023 Building and fire safety reform – 6 April, more than just the start of the bank holiday weekend? By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Elizabeth Massey Our blog last month advised that the window for registering higher-risk buildings (“HRBs”) was due to open in April 2023, with the...
Mar 16, 2023 (Some) developers step up and bind themselves to the Government’s ‘fire safety contract’ By Paul Slinger 13 March 2023 marked the deadline for when the Government expected housebuilders and mixed-use developers to sign up to commitments...
Mar 15, 2023 A warning from the Building Safety Regulator to be ready By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Elizabeth Massey The regulator’s Making Buildings Safer campaign aims to highlight the new legal duties that those who own, manage and/or otherwise...
Jan 23, 2023 New year, new regulations; the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 are in force By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Today (23 January 2023) the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 (the Regulations) come into force. The Regulations, enacting many of...
Oct 05, 2022 Smoke and carbon monoxide alarm obligations in force from 1 October 2022 By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Yesterday I was presenting at a conference regarding the Building Safety Act 2022, and in listening to the speakers it struck me just how...