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    • Building Safety Act
    • Feb 20, 2024

    Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA): Mandatory occurrence reporting for higher risk buildings (hrbs) during construction

    Under the Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023 there is now a responsibility on the Principal Designer and Principal Contractor responsible for HRBs to carry out Mandatory Occurrence Reporting (MOR) where appropriate. Which buildings are affected? An HRB is a building

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    • Building Safety Act
    • Feb 20, 2024

    Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA): Works to hospitals and care homes

    Potential areas for misunderstanding are emerging as the construction industry gets to grips with the Building Safety Act (BSA). It is now generally understood that hospitals and care homes are excluded from the BSA’s occupation phase requirements even if the

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    • Building Safety Act
    • Jan 22, 2024

    Enforcement powers under the BSA during the in-construction phase

    Introduction The construction industry is undergoing a transformative shift with the implementation of the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA). As part of these reforms, the BSA introduced a regime that seeks to strengthen pre-existing enforcement powers and introduces new enforcement

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    • Building Safety Act
    • Jan 22, 2024

    Weaving the golden thread

    What is the Golden Thread? The Building Safety Act (BSA) requirement for a golden thread of information seeks to remedy a historic lack of complete and up to date information about high rise residential buildings which can make it difficult

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    • In Trust
    • Jan 11, 2024

    Profile: Victoria Mahon

    Victoria’s practice includes all aspects of private client work. She has expertise in Court of Protection and elderly client work to include advising on applications to the Court regarding deputyship appointments, mental capacity issues, powers of attorney and protection of

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    • In Trust
    • Jan 11, 2024

    The Building Safety Act: Impact on executors, trustees and attorneys

    The Building Safety Act 2022 (“BSA”) was introduced following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 and imposes new legal obligations on landlords of affected buildings to make those buildings safe. This includes replacing dangerous cladding and fixing historical safety defects.

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    • In Trust
    • Jan 11, 2024

    Time for change: Modernising the UK law on wills

    The law governing Wills in England and Wales is almost 200 years old. It is therefore unsurprising that the Law Commission has been consulting on proposed reforms. Its Wills project (paused in 2019) was picked up again in 2022, with

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    • Bulletins
    • Dec 18, 2023

    Bouchier & Anor v Booth & Anor

    Judgments on claims for fraudulent trading (s 213 Insolvency Act 1986) do not come along every day: they are hard to make good. A recent example is, however, that of Charles Morrison (sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High

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    • Bulletins
    • Dec 18, 2023

    Mercy Global Consult Ltd v Adegbuyi

    Wedlake Bell LLP successfully represented Mercy Global Consult Ltd by its Liquidators Jason Ainge and Paul Stanley of Begbies Traynor at trial of a significant payroll fraud. Mercy Global Consult Ltd provided umbrella payroll services for workers  in the health

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    • Building Safety Act
    • Dec 13, 2023

    Navigating the Building Safety Act 2022: Demystifying principal designer and principal contractor roles part 1 – Introduction

    The construction industry is undergoing a transformative shift with the implementation of the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA). As part of these reforms, from 1 October 2023, a new dutyholder regime applies to all construction projects subject to limited exceptions

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