This seminar is aimed at solicitors and barristers specialising in construction law. It will also be of practical benefit to construction professionals involved in the payment certification process (including designers, contract administrators, project managers, engineers and surveyors), as well as commercial directors / managers of employers / contractors / subcontractors.

Refreshments will be available from 9.30am.

TOPICS

• Understanding ‘construction operations’
• Statutory payment provisions under the Construction Contracts (NI) Order 1997 and Part II of the Scheme;
• Stage Payments;
• Dates for payments;
• Notice Regime;
• Giving effect to implied terms under the Scheme for Construction Contracts

About the speaker

David Humphreys, DWF (NI) LLP

David is an associate in the Infrastructure, Construction & Energy (ICE) team at DWF, and is qualified in Northern Ireland, England & Wales, and the Republic of Ireland. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), David specialises in high value and complex construction disputes, frequently attending to the drafting of all pleadings, submissions and witness statements in the course of such disputes. David’s recent public sector work includes advices in relation to complex projects across a central government client’s global estate, including high risk locations, disputed and distressed projects. David’s advice often overlaps with the implications of insolvency, jurisdiction, set off, procedural fairness and enforcement. David is a CIArb trained adjudicator and has recently been admitted to the panel of UK Adjudicators. 

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