Late Payment: What Can We Do When We Don't Get Paid?
What can we do if we don't get paid or suffer from late payment? We get this question a lot at claims class, along with similar questions about late certification.
In some regions, this is less of a problem because legislation is quite strict on payment terms. However, elsewhere, it is common for the paying party to hang onto money for as long as possible.Read more
What Qualifies as a Force Majeure event under FIDIC?
One of our distance learning students contacted me for some advice on a claim that she had received based on force majeure on a contract under the FIDIC Yellow Book. My advice may be summarised as follows and is also applicable to the 1999 FIDIC Red Book:Read more
The Obligations of the Parties Under the FIDIC Forms of Contract
Did you know that the FIDIC Red book contains 74 separate obligations of the Employer, 211 of the Contractor and 85 of the Engineer? Well, to be honest, neither did I until I just counted them in the draft of my latest book!Read more