Amending Standard Form Construction Contracts

Here is the Construction Leadership Council’s (CLC) recent Statement on Standard Appointment Terms. It deals with their concern about what they call the ongoing practice within the construction sector, of industry-approved forms of contract being amended by clients and their solicitors to introduce terms that are onerous and/or difficult to insure. At the foot of the Statement are links to other pronouncements on the same theme by other organisations.

Ridgemont is keen to hear the opinions of its clients and contacts on this topic, because it is central to our work as a specialist construction law firm. So do please get in touch with your views, however short or detailed.

The context for CLC Statements like this one is the long term, heavily stressed nature of the construction sector and its very small profit margins. That subject of course dovetails into our recent conference on Adjudication: 30 years post Sir Michael Latham’s report, because back in 1994 Latham was trying to fix some of these long term stresses, one tool for which was supposed to be adjudication. Our Latham related content can be accessed below: