CONTRACTUAL ISSUES - INTRODUCTORY NOTES

Construction Design and Management Regulations

Thursday 23 May 1996 at the Institution of Civil Engineers London

A one day conference organised by Thomas Telford Conferences on behalf of the Institution of Civil Engineers

CDM: one year on how is it for you?

GROUP ONE WORKSHOP B

Contractual Issues and Interfaces

M.T. Foley -

1) CDM Regulations are a statutory code for breach of which criminal sanctions are provided.

2) Caution is required in establishing contractual rights and obligations based on the Regulations because two sets of duties would then apply, one civil the other criminal, and there is:

scope for confusion an increase in burdens a risk in re-statement or expansion