Papers and Notes

A global forecast for the construction industry over the next decade to 2020 - a paper following a review of the ten year economic forecast of the global construction market, published by Global Construction Perspectives and Oxford Economics, given by Graham Robinson on 21 October 2010.

NEC v JCT: mutual trust and co-operation v good faith and spirit of trust and respect? Blog following the KCCLA and Sweet & Maxwell Twelfth Annual Lecture on 20 April 2010.

Crossrail to Delivery' - slides from a talk by Rob Holden on 25 February 2010.

'Why NEC when you can IChemE?' slides from a talk by Gordon H Bateman on 21 January 2010.

'JCT Contract in a Cold Climate' - slides and notes from two talks at a lecture on 18 February 2009
Adam Constable - slides and notes
Adrian Williamson QC and Adam Constable - slides and notes

'Maximising Success in EU Procurement Creating a balance for Public and Private Sectors' (PowerPoint) from a seminar on 12 June 2008

Victoria Station Upgrade event, 20 May 2008: PowerPoint slides in PDF format.

'Professional Indemnity Insurance' Presentation slides (PowerPoint) from a seminar on 17 April 2008 at JLT.

Documents from 'Planning Reform: A Future Without Planning Inquiries, S.106 Agreements – Or Lawyers?' - a presentation and panel discussion on 21 November 2007 on the Government’s current White Paper on Planning Reform and proposals for a planning gain supplement development tax:
Profoundly Undemocratic: The Proposed Independent Planning Commission (Philip Petchey) - PDF 116k
Planning Reform: A Future Without Planning Inquiries, S.106 Agreements – Or Lawyers? (Richard Honey) - PDF 40k
Planning Reform: A Future Without Planning Inquiries, S.106 Agreements – Or Lawyers? (Hui Ling McCarthy) - PPT presentation 500k

Narrative of Resolex Mock Mediation held At The IDRC on Tuesday 30 January 2007.
Full text (PDF: 39k)

Presentations from the 27 February 2007 joint ICE and King's College Construction Law Association Event: BUILDING A NUCLEAR FUTURE: BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS TO BUILDING THE NEW GENERATION OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN THE UK
from Professor Gregg Butler of Manchester University, Robert Fookes of Francis Taylor Buildings, Roger Smith of EC Harris and Bill Bryce of the Nuclear Industry Association

Joint KCCLA, Simmons & Simmons and KPMG talk "PPP/PFI terminology unravelled (or An idiot's guide to the curious world of Public Private Partnerships)" by Richard Dyton and Nick Hopkins on 16 January 2007.
Presentation slides - PowerPoint

MSc students' visit to the Royal Courts of Justice (Technology and Construction Court) on 15 June 2006: accounts by Yiannis Vacanas and Trevor Sharpe (both PDF)

Chairman's Report, 2005-06
Full text (PDF: 17k)

Sweet & Maxwell Eighth KCCLA Annual Lecture, 24 November 2005: "Is single point design responsibility under JCT 2005 illusory?" by Professor Peter Hibberd.
Full text (PDF: 173k)

Sweet & Maxwell Seventh KCCLA Annual Lecture, 25 November 2004:
"What I should like to do to the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996" by Jeremy Glover.
Full text (PDF: 214k)

Sweet & Maxwell Sixth KCCLA Annual Lecture, 27 November 2003:
"Partnering and PPP A Way Forward?" by Sally Roe and Jane Jenkins.
Full text (PDF: 216k)