Legal, Regulatory and Statutory Compliance

Using Commercial Contracts: a practical guide for engineers and project managers examines how the law of contract operates, and the way in which the legal system interprets what a contract actually means.

The book explains the legal rules governing the use of land and buildings as well as material changes of use, setting out the rules that apply to the use of land generally and to material changes of use. It explains the provisions of the Use Classes Order in detail. and includes Permitted Changes of Use, Unlawful Uses and Lawful Use Certificates.

A Practical Guide to Planning, Highways and Development brings together the complex and widespread laws and regulations governing how highways are accounted for in planning and development processes in a single volume. An essential reference for planners, highway engineers and their legal advisers.

Adjudication is now the main means for resolving construction disputes and has proved remarkably successful in that task. However, following the introduction of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, a large range of issues of interpretation and practice have arisen, many of which have had to be considered by the courts.

Construction claims frequently involve a dispute about delay. Whether or not the contractor or client has a claim which can be proved successfully depends on establishing causation and understanding legal rights and obligations. This book shows how to identify and avoid problems during the project, and analyses claims for delay.

In September 1999, FIDIC introduced its new Suite of Contracts, which included a new Red, Yellow, Silver and Green forms of contract. The new Red Book was intended to replace the 1992 fourth edition of the Red Book, with the ambition that its use would cease with time.

Compulsory Purchase and Compensation is the essential guide to this complex and increasingly relevant area of the law. Now in its eleventh edition, no other book presents the same level of information on the law relating to compulsory purchase and compensation in England and Wales in such an accessible way.