Nicola Seager is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors’ Taunton Property Litigation team specialising in dilapidations, rights of light, and party walls.
Nicola is a commercial property solicitor with over 23 years of practice. She has a broad spectrum of experience in commercial and residential development and commercial landlord and tenant.
Pandemic, construction materials shortage and the JCT: What can you do?
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The UK construction industry is in the middle of a materials procurement and shortage crisis, with key building materials like timber, cement and steel becoming much more expensive and difficult to source.
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Petra Hantakova is a Senior Associate in Clarke Willmott’s Birmingham commercial property team with particular experience in investment and development.
When developing mixed use premises it is important to plan ahead especially where a developer intends to dispose of the freehold of the whole building or grant a long lease of the commercial parts as an investment.
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Reducing unfair dismissal compensation due to the employee’s contributory fault
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There are a number of mechanisms an Employment Tribunal can apply to reduce unfair dismissal compensation (such as a Polkey deduction etc), and this time we will explore the principles of ‘contributory fault’.
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