Presentation of Claim Narratives – Top Tips Paper for Download!
EC Harris’ Global Construction Disputes report cited incomplete and unsubstantiated claims as a major reason of disputes. Simply put, this means that the claimant has not prepared his claim to a standard that is required for the administrator of the contract to consider that the claim has merit, resulting in rejection of the claim.
If the contractor considers that the claim is just, then the matter is elevated to an expensive and time-consuming dispute, which is something that could often have been avoided had the contractor prepared his claim properly in the first place.
However hard the reviewer of a claim submission or a claim response endeavours to remain impartial, if the reviewer’s job is made difficult, unpleasant, annoying or unnecessarily complicated, it is unlikely that they will remain truly unbiased towards the party who has caused such inconvenience. On the other hand…
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Andy,
This top tips document is great! So thank you very much for offering this to the public. I did actually ‘think’ (using that term loosely) about preparing something like this myself, as I have a young team working with me and a client preparing claim documents for litigation, but I just didn’t get around to it!
I really wish I had just taken the time and done it.
Keep doing what your doing for the construction claims practitioners – its very much appreciated.
Thanks
Craig
Hi Craig – thanks for the positive comments! Glad you liked the paper. Perhaps encourage your young team to follow us; we have a number of Top Tips papers which we often release over our social media channels and will continue to write more when inspiration strikes!