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.
More about The Building Safety Act: Impact on executors, trustees and attorneysThe 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
More about Time for change: Modernising the UK law on willsThe claim arose out of the insolvency of Tiuta International Limited. TIL was part of a group of companies, the parent being Tiuta plc, of which it was a wholly-owned subsidiary. Its business was the provision of short-term bridging loans
More about Bouchier & Anor v Booth & AnorMercy Global Consult Ltd provided umbrella payroll services for workers in the health care sector who were proving their service to that sector through recruitment agencies. It used a convoluted billing system which gave rise to a tax investigation which
More about Mercy Global Consult Ltd v AdegbuyiThe 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
More about Navigating the Building Safety Act 2022: Demystifying principal designer and principal contractor roles part 1 – IntroductionIn Part 1 we introduced the new Principal Designer and Principal Contractor roles in the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) in contrast to those roles under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM Regulations). In this Part 2 we
More about Navigating the Building Safety Act 2022: Demystifying principal designer and principal contractor roles part 2 – Principal designer competency requirementsThe 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.
More about Navigating the Building Safety Act 2022: Demystifying principal designer and principal contractor roles part 3 – Principal contractor competency requirementsThe 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.
More about Navigating the Building Safety Act 2022: Demystifying principal designer and principal contractor roles part 4 – Client dutiesUnder the Building Safety Act 2022 (“BSA“) and corresponding regulations all existing occupied higher risk buildings in England are to be registered with the national Building Safety Regulator (“Regulator”) by 1 October 2023. A failure to do so could lead
More about Part one: Occupied hrbs must be on the register – BSA occupational insights (england)Once a higher risk building is occupied, there are two main areas of the BSA that property investors should consider: the management of “building safety risks” and who is responsible; and the recovery of the costs of carrying out safety
More about Part two: Management of occupied buildings is not just for property managers – BSA occupational insights (england)