Our summer edition of the UK Construction Briefing highlights various issues of interest to and affecting UK construction businesses.

If you would like more information on any of the issues raised below, please contact one of the team listed under Key Contacts.

You can find all our publications on the "Insights" tab on our web page: UK Construction team.

UK construction contracts and procurement

• UK construction contracts news round-up
• Adopting smart contracts in construction: what are the practical and legal issues?
• Fuel for thought: decommissioning oil and gas projects (new standard forms)

Payment update

• Could Scotland lead the way in improving payment practices?
• Build UK's ambition to move to zero retentions by 2025
• Mitigating insolvency effects in the supply chain

Resolving UK construction disputes

• Round-up of litigation and ADR procedure news for in-house lawyers (construction focus)
• CIC publishes Model Mediation Agreement and Procedure

Industry issues

• Legal issues for those running UK construction businesses (July 2019)
• New and proposed legislation summary, April to June 2019 (UK construction focus)
• Modern slavery law affects your company too