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...
2/20/2024 9:46:35 AM 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...
12/5/2023 10:34:55 AM 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...
11/7/2023 11:59:52 AM 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...
8/18/2023 9:12:50 AM 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...
4/6/2023 9:32:36 AM 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...
3/16/2023 5:12:31 PM (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...
3/15/2023 11:38:11 AM 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...