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Information for members
September 2005

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Programme

Unless marked otherwise, the following meetings are free to members and guests. Location maps are now always available on the website.

All are welcome but for those meetings where the organiser’s telephone or email is given, it would be helpful if you could please let them know of your intention to attend .

Wednesday 8 September, 6.15pm
“The Internationalisation of contractual adjudication”
Speaker: David Brynmor Thomas
Offices of Herbert Smith, Primrose St , London EC2A

Tuesday 27 September, 6.15pm
“Payment Notices/Issues”
Speaker: Peter Collie
Brunswick Lecture Theatre, Leeds Metropolitan Univ.
Organiser: jonathanhawkswell@scl.org.uk

Tuesday 4th October, 6.15pm
“A little about time at large. Calculating a reasonable time to complete in the absence of a completion date”
Speakers: Keith Pickavance & Wendy MacLaughlin
Venue: National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place , London SW1 6.15pm

Tuesday 4th October, 6.30pm
“Health & Safety in Construction”
Speaker: Steffan Croch
Chairman: Peter Fenn
Venue: Pariser Building , Floor G, University of Manchester 6.30pm
Organiser: peterfenn@scl.org.uk

Friday 7 October, 12pm
Joint SCL /RICS/CIArb “Construction Conference”
Speakers: The Honourable Mr Justice Jackson, John Riches, Nerys Jefford and Sean Brannigan
Chairman: The Honourable Mr Justice Jackson
Venue: Pride Park , Derby . 12.00 noon
Cost: £55 per person (to include lunch and afternoon tea)
Bookings will be organised by RICS – details to follow.

Tuesday 18 October, 6pm
Joint SCL /King’s College meeting
“The Great Delay Analysis Debate”
Protagonists as follows:
Steve Briggs Arguing “As Planned vs As Built” for the contractor
Alistair Farr Arguing “As Planned Impacted” for the employer
John Hammond Arguing “As Planned But For” for the engineer
Keith Pickavance Arguing “Time Impacted” for the adjudicator
Venue: The Great Hall, King’s College, London 6.00pm
Cost: £20 per person (to include drinks reception at 7.40pm )
To book, contact Marie Buckley on 020 7421 1986 or mbuckley@fenwickelliott.co.uk

Thursday 20 October, 6.15pm
“NEC 3”
Speaker: Brian Eggleston
(chairman and venue to be announced)
Organiser: arulselvaratnam@scl.org.uk

Thursday 20 October, 6.00pm
“Insuring the integrated team”
Speaker: Steve Bamforth
Chairman: tba
The Rose Bowl, Southampton SO30
Organiser: marianharris-deans@scl.org.uk

Tuesday 1 November, 6.15pm
Joint SCL /TECBAR meeting
London venue - further details to be announced

Tuesday 15 November, 6.15pm
“Novation after Blyth & Blyth”
Speaker: Scott McKinnell
Chairman: tba
Brunswick Lecture Theatre, Leeds Metropolitan Univ.
Organiser: jonathanhawkswell@scl.org.uk

Wednesday 30 November, 6pm
“NEC 3”
Speaker: Brian Eggleston
George Moore Building , Board Room M401, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4
Organiser: lindypatterson@scl.org.uk

Tuesday 6 December, 6.15pm
Joint SCL /TECBAR meeting
“Liability of local authorities”
Speaker: Lord Justice Dyson
Venue and chairman to be announced

SCL Hudson Prize 2005

A reminder that entries are now invited for this year’s SCL Hudson Prize and that the closing date for receipt of entries is 31st December 2005 . Entries are invited from members and non-members, so if you have any non-member colleagues who you think might be interested, please let them know. The entry details can be downloaded from the website, or request a copy from admin. The winner of the first prize will receive a cheque for £1,500 and a case of champagne, and the winner of the second prize will receive a cheque for £750 and a case of wine!

Forensic Engineering Conference, ICE, November 2005

The ICE is organising a Third International Conference on Forensic Engineering in November 2005.  Further information is available at: www.forensicengineering2005.com

SCL Website – how to register as a member

Go to the website homepage www.scl.org.uk click Member Registration (listed below the Member Login box on the right hand side of the homepage) and enter your details and a username and password of your own choosing. Your membership number is also asked for (if you don’t know it, then admin can tell you).

Thereafter, you can simply log onto the website using your username and password. When you log in you will see a navigation link to 'Members' which is where you can update your contact details, email subscriptions and data protection information – as well as search for information about other SCL members who have agreed for their data to be accessible to other members on the website (currently over 500 members).

The website is constantly being improved.  If you have any questions, problems or suggestions, please contact our webmaster, Edward Peters, at Webmaster

Contributions invited from Members

What construction law related topic would you like to see presented as a talk? Please email your suggestions to Jackie Morris on admin@scl.org.uk and we will do our best to organise a talk in your area.

You are also invited to contribute to the newsletter. If you have an item related to construction law that you feel would be of interest to others, then please email text to Jackie Morris at admin@scl.org.uk. A member of Council will thereafter decide whether to include the item in the next newsletter. Please note that we do not accept advertisements or items of a commercial nature.

New Members

Finally, we are pleased to welcome the following new members who joined the Society in August:

Ahmad Shukri Abd Ghani, Sarawak, Malaysia
John Forde, London
Pervaiz Gani, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Jamie Hillier, Northampton
Jeremy Hudson, Perth, Australia
Martin Hunter, London
Peter Lau, London
Frank Mandarino, London
Kevin Marlow, Palaiseau, France
Paula McKinley, Guildford, Surrey
Martin Morrison, Camberley, Surrey
Dave Owen, London
Luke Robottom, London
Byron Robson, Vale of Glamorgan
Kenneth Smith, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Matthew Taylor, London
Harry Vann, London
Crispin Winser, London
Ben Worthington, London

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