ADR Digest

ADR Digest, Winter 2022

• West Kowloon v AIG Insurance: Validity of Bond Call Overturned - Ian Cocking
• Balfour Beatty Regional Construction Limited v Van Elle Limited: An Unsigned Sub-contract and Limitation Clauses - David Longbottom
• Barkby Real Estate Developments Limited v Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Limited: A Reasonable Time for Completion and Remoteness of Losses - David Longbottom

ADR Digest, Summer 2020

• Expert Witnesses / Evidence - Benjamin Pilling QC
• Clauses Which Prohibit Oral Variations - David Longbottom
• Does an Expert have a Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty to Their Client? - Ian Cocking and Albert Wong

ADR Digest, Winter 2017/18

• Hong Kong’s Ticking Bomb: BIM - François Bolduc
• Investing in Investment Protection: - Richard Lyons and James McKenzie

ADR Digest, Spring 2017

• The Updated SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol: Evolution, Not Revolution - Vincent Connor
• Delay Analysis – Correcting for Programme Errors - David Greig

ADR Digest, Autumn 2016

• Getting on the Third Party Funding Bandwagon: Opportunities and Risks for Hong Kong’s Construction Industry - Richard Lyons & James McKenzie
• Contractual Interpretation After Arnold v. Britton: What Does It All Mean? - Steven Walker QC & David Johnson

ADR Digest, Spring 2016

• Risky Business: Design-build Procurement on Megaprojects in Hong Kong - Phillip Georgiou & Sonny Payne
• Pratical Ways to Identify Measured Miles -Professor William Ibbs & Josh Chittick
• ADR Analysis: Challenges Facing the Hong Kong Construction Industry - ADR Partnership

ADR Digest, Winter 2015/16

• Looking in the Right Direction? The Philosophy of NEC3 - Steven Walker QC / David Johnson
• Cavendish Square v El Makdessi - Liquidated Damages: The New Law - Nick Longley
• ADR News: Adjudication Training and Accreditation Programme - ADR Partnership

ADR Digest, Spring 2015

• Security of Payment and Adjudication in Hong Kong - Peter Fraser QC / David Johnson
• Cumulative Impact Claims: Quantitative Aspects - Professor William Ibbs,
• ADR News: New Consultants Join ADR - ADR Partnership

ADR Digest, Summer 2013

• Defending Against Daubert Type Challenges as an Expert Witness - Patrick J O'Neill
• Concurrent Delay in Modern Contracts - Lucy Garrett
• ADR News: ADR Annual Cocktails, China Club - 6th June 2012 - ADR Partnership

ADR Digest, Winter 2012

• The Enthusiasm for Mediation Continues... - David S Longbottom
• Walter Lilly v Giles Patrick Mackay: Lessons Learned and Implications for Hong Kong - Ian Cocking
• ADR Review: Keating on Construction Contracts, Ninth Edition - The Hon Sir Vivian Ramsey; Stephen Furst, QC

ADR Digest, Spring 2012

• Claim Preparation Costs: Are They Recoverable? - Kaymond H C Lam
• The New Arbitration Ordinance (Cap 609) from a Construction Industry Perspective - Ian Cocking & Tom Palmer
• ADR Feedback: My Two-Penneth' Worth on Concurrent Delay - Peter Berry

ADR Digest, Autumn 2011

• Concurrent Delay: Which Way Now? - Patrick J O'Neill
• The Application of Liquidated & Ascertained Damages - Peter Brennan
• ADR Analysis: Sanctioned Offers & Payments - ADR Partnership

ADR Digest, Spring 2011

• Geotechnical Baseline Reports - Their Use & Abuse in Hong Kong - James B Longbottom
• Hired Guns Bite the Dust? - Ian Cocking
• ADR Analysis: The Cost Implications of an Unreasonable Refusal to Mediate - ADR Partnership

ADR Digest, Winter 2010/11

• The Single Joint Expert in Construction Disputes - Patrick J O'Neill
• City Inn Ltd v Shepherd Construction - Appeal Court Decision: Causation, concurrency & extension of time - Pinsent Masons
• ADR Analysis: Force Majeure Clauses & Frustration - ADR Partnership

ADR Digest, Summer 2010

• Concurrent Delays - Apportioning the Blame - David S Longbottom
• Written Applications & Notices in the Hong Kong Government General Conditions of Contract - Peter Berry
• ADR Analysis: The Meaning of 'Substantial Completion' - ADR Partnership

• Prolongation Claims - Lessons from the TCC - James B Longbottom
• A Project Coordination Office (PCO) for Coordinating Hong Kong Public Infrastructure Projects - The Procurement Sub-Group, British Chamber of Commerce Construction Industry Group
• Experts & Hot Tubbing - Richard Wilmot-Smith
• ADR Analysis: The Meaning Of 'Practical Completion' - ADR Partnership

• Mediation and the Civil Justice Reform - David S Longbottom
• New Engineering Contract - A Strategic Trial Plan to Achieve Best Value in Hong Kong - The Procurement Sub-Group, British Chamber of Commerce Construction Industry Group
• ADR Analysis: Straight Line versus Reduced Balance Depreciation - ADR Partnership

• Sam Woo Bored Pile Foundations Limited & China Overseas Foundation Engineering Limited - More Questions than Answers? - James B Longbottom
• Forensic Scheduling Analysis - Recommended Practice or Protocol: What's the Difference? - Anthony Caletka
• Quantifying Acceleration Costs - Patrick J O'Neill
• ADR Analysis: Interpretation of Contracts - ADR Partnership

• Ascertaining the Cost of Termination - Patrick J O'Neill
• Progress Reports - Bryce Phillips
• Principles of Cost Claims Under GCC Clause 63 - David S Longbottom
• ADR Analysis: Adjudication Government Style - ADR Partnership

• Are You Insured? - Nicholas Longley
• Re-rating for Substantial Changes in Quantity - James B Longbottom
• ADR Analysis: Without Prejudice - ADR Partnership

• Challenges to Liquidated Damages - Patrick J O'Neill
• Redress in an Inflationary Environment - Timothy Hill & Damon So
• Evaluating Disruption - Kaymond H C Lam
• ADR Analysis: The Burden & Standard of Proof - ADR Partnership

• Performance Bonds: The Devil is in the Detail - David S Longbottom
• OFT Bid Rigging Scandal - Ian Cocking & Joanne Smith
• When Does a Claim Become a Dispute & Why Does it Matter? - Patrick J O'Neill
• ADR Analysis: Contra Proferentem - ADR Partnership

• The end of Missing Items? - James B Longbottom
• City Inn Limited & Shepherd Construction Limited - Vincent Connor & Wei Yaw Lam
• Commercial Management of Building Services - Avan Fan
• ADR Analysis: Preference of terms - ADR Partnership

• Contractors Beware: the new Handbook and prolongation costs - James B Longbottom
• Compromise: Recovering the settlement that shouldn't have been - Timothy Hill
• ADR Analysis: Inclement Weather - ADR Partnership

• Cash Retentions: Severing the Over-Reliance - Patrick J O'Neill
• Time at Large - Ian Cocking & Judy Man
• The Risk of Being Different Alternative Designs - David S Longbottom