Building Law Reports

European law - Award of public works contracts - Council Directive 71/305/EEC, Article 9 - Obligations to put work out to tender and to publish notice of invitation to tender in the Official Journal of the European Communities - Derogation for “technical or artistic reasons” European law - EC Treaty, Article 169 - Procedure

Contract - JCT Standard Form, 1980 Private Edition with Quantities - Clause 24.2.1 - Written notice - Whether condition precedent - Requirements of notice

Contract - Contractual machinery - Implied exclusion of common law rights - Importance of words “without prejudice to other rights”

Contract - Concurrent duty in tort - Whether tortious duty wider than contractual duty

Arbitration - Award - Costs - Arbitrator’s discretion - Whether exercised judicially - Appeal under the Arbitration Act 1979, s1

Costs - Calderbank offer - RSC Ord 22, r 14(1) and RSC Ord 62, r 9(1)(d) - Whether offer should be considered - Whether party achieved more by rejecting offer - Whether reasonable to reject offer