Successful Contract Negotiations: Understanding Goals and Risk

When dismissal is the desired outcome, is the evidence driving the process, or the other way around? Sunil Hansjee explores why employers should start with the evidence, rather than a predetermined outcome. He discusses how confusing misconduct with incapacity or poor work performance can lead employers down the wrong procedural…

Who should handle NHBRC project enrolment — the developer or the contractor? Peter Barnard and Robin Westley, discuss registration versus enrolment, the complexities of mixed-use developments and refurbishments, and why addressing these questions before construction begins matters.

Payment delays, reissued invoices, lengthy approval processes, and budget constraints can have significant consequences for contractors and consultants, and ultimately for project delivery. In the lead-up to the Unlocking Infrastructure Delivery Event on 18 September, Peter Barnard, Cox Yeats partner and host of the event, highlights practical challenges on infrastructure…

As government increasingly looks to public-private partnerships (PPPs) to support infrastructure delivery, the opportunities are significant, but so too are the complexities. In the lead-up to Unlocking Infrastructure Delivery on 18 September, Peter Barnard, Partner at Cox Yeats and host of the event, shares his perspective on the growing focus…

Standard form construction contracts are designed to allocate risk fairly, but what happens when those contracts are heavily amended? In this episode, Peter Barnard, Claudelle Pretorius and Chantal Mitchell unpack the four standard form construction contracts used in South Africa, JBCC, GCC, NEC and FIDIC, and explain how unnecessary or…