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Legal Focus
JULY 2014
This month’s Legal Focus is as in-depth as ever, covering a wide range of major practice areas and issues, from Bribery and Corruption to Shale and Unconventional gas. This feature reflects the news of the legal world, and there has certainly been plenty keeping the world’s legal news rooms busy over recent weeks. The stories below are explored further within the following interviews and features with expert lawyers from across the world, as well as related issues from their specific jurisdictions and comment on the other legal implications that many of these major stories uncover. We hope you enjoy this edition of Legal Focus.
Construction Disputes – Identifying problems at the outset
Construction disputes have risen globally in value throughout 2013 as building projects became increasingly reliant on joint ventures. A combination and environmental and behavioural factors can lead to construction disputes. Projects are usually long-term transactions with high uncertainty and complexity, so it is possible to resolve every detail and foresee every contingency at the outset. As a result situation often arise that are not clearly addressed by the contract. The basic factors that drive the development of construction disputes are uncertainty, contractual problems, and behaviour.
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