Our clients often seek an early, proportionate assessment of entitlement and value to minimise further commercial exposure. Our non-partisan reports assist in clarifying the issues genuinely in dispute, so that both sides have a clear understanding of entitlement, valuation and risk. That clarity facilitates early commercial resolution.
This is because construction disputes often turn less on the underlying work than on how entitlement is evidenced, priced, and presented. Common points of attack include alleged failures to notify, reliance on time bars, fragmented delay analysis, and quantum claims unsupported by contemporaneous records. Our work is directed to addressing those issues from the outset. Our analysis is structured to address causation, concurrency and criticality, rather than retrospective narratives. Quantum is assessed by reference to the contract mechanisms and the project records, not global or impressionistic allowances. Where notice provisions and time bars are raised, the analysis distinguishes between strict contractual compliance, waiver, knowledge, prejudice and the actual operation of the clause in context.
Our objective is not to restate claims, but to test and rebuild them around the contract so they can withstand the predictable lines of attack in adjudication, arbitration and court.
