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  Energy & Infrastructure The Smart Bulletin June 2019

  28.06.2019 |Energy & infrastructure

  We are pleased to share with you the latest edition of the Ince Smart Contracting Bulletin. Our aim is to keep those working in the Energy & Infrastructure sectors up-to-date with relevant legal developments.

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  Are liquidated damages payable post-termination?

  28.06.2019 |Energy & infrastructure

  In a salient reminder of the need to construe liquidated damages clauses using ordinary principles of interpretation, the Court of Appeal has clarified three strands of conflicting authorities concerning the question of whether liquidated damages can be claimed following the termination of a contract.

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  IR35 and changes in private sector contracting arrangements

  28.06.2019 |Energy & infrastructure

  As anticipated, the crackdown within the public sector regarding the use of intermediary personal service companies (commonly known as the IR35 rules) is to be widened to the private sector from April 2020. The changes will mean that when hiring consultants, contractors or freelancers, greater due diligence will be required to ascertain employment status, tax responsibilities and contractual arrangements.

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  A stitch in SUPPLYTIME 2017

  28.06.2019 |Energy & infrastructure

  A recent Commercial Court judgment provides important clarification on the interpretation of clause 12(e) of BIMCO SUPPLYTIME 2017 concerning the consequences of failing to dispute an invoice before the due date.

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  Infelicities of expression, the bane of the hard-pressed lawyer - a disclosure pilot update

  28.06.2019 |Energy & infrastructure

  A declaration that the commentary on the new Disclosure Pilot in the White Book is incorrect, the court doubting its own jurisdiction and three different results for post-Pilot disclosure applications in three different pre-Pilot cases highlight that the court and practitioners are encountering challenges as they find their way in implementing the Pilot.

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  Sins of the fathers: Supreme Court clarifies the rules for establishing anchor defendants

  28.06.2019 |Energy & infrastructure

  A recent Supreme Court judgment has bucked the trend of refusing jurisdiction in cases where anchor defendants are sued in respect of claims against overseas subsidiaries.

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  ICC arbitration awards – a reasonable expectation of privacy?

  28.06.2019 |Energy & infrastructure

  A new guidance note from the ICC provides an update on case handling matters, including, amongst other things, its new approach to the publication of awards, disclosure of potential conflicts of interest by arbitrators and GDPR compliance.

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  Contract in need of a CATS scan? Interpretative treatment of lengthy long-term contracts

  28.06.2019 |Energy & infrastructure

  In the latest instalment of CATS litigation, the Commercial Court has provided guidance on the principles of contractual interpretation which apply to lengthy, complex and long-term contracts and has construed the content of obligations arising late in the contract term.

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