Construction and Engineering Law

Written by a member of the FIDIC President's List of Adjudicators, this detailed and critical commentary on the FIDIC Red Book provides authoritative guidance and recommendations for best practice.

Although environmental laws are rarely able to provide the simple solutions that people want from them, they are essential for the future of our planet. This book explores how legal responses are shaped in response to the problems facing the environment today, and the socio-political conflicts facing environmental legislation.

Offering practical guidance on the related topics of dilapidations and service charge disputes, this book bridges the gap between heavy-weight legally focussed case law publications and the lighter weight guidance notes. It provides guidance to surveyors, lawyers, landlords and tenants involved in these specialist areas of property disputes.

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.

Revised edition of: Evaluating contract claims / R. Peter Davison and John Mullen. 2009.