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In addition to our professional indemnity insurance, informed by Planned Cover provides a contract review service to help consultants understand the insurance and risk implications of professional services agreements. By reviewing approximately 1,300 contracts every year, it allows us to consider trends in client-drafted contracts, and gives us a general understanding of the construction industry. In 2024, this […]

Unfair contracts legislation (“UCL”) is not new. However, new provisions that commence operation from 9 November 2023 expand the reach of UCL in ways that benefit consultants who work in the parts of the construction industry where long and one-sided consultancy agreements are the norm. The amendments to UCL (“Amendments”) apply to contracts entered into […]

Welcome our new Risk Managers Winston Churchill once said, “To improve is to change”, something we hold to be true and have been constantly trying to achieve by growing and evolving as a business to provide design consultants with high quality, relevant and up to date risk management and educational advice. We continually strive for […]

Determinative v Non-Determinative Processes and how they affect your Professional Indemnity (PI) Insurance It is not uncommon for consultants to experience a dispute at some point in their career.  Projects are increasingly complicated making the resulting disputes more complex too, but, lengthy and expensive litigation is no longer the default method used to resolve all […]

In our recent webinar series ‘Getting Confident with Contracts – Part 1: A Practical Perspective’, polling indicated the following about client drafted contracts: at least 50% of consultants are told by clients that you are the only ones that won’t sign their contracts; over 50% of consultants have been told that client agreements cannot be […]

We have all come across ‘Dispute Resolution’ clauses in commercial contracts, also known as ‘Alternative Dispute Resolution’ (“ADR”). ADR offers alternative methods for resolving disputes without recourse to litigation saving costs, time and stress. It can help resolve a dispute before it goes court or tribunal. This article aims to summarise the different types of […]

When it comes to supervising employees or the like in the performance of professional services on a project, it is imperative to consider what obligations you have in supervising that employee’s work.