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Level 1 Contract Practice Flashcards

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What is a contract?

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Legally binding agreement between two parties to provide goods and service within a specified timeframe.

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What is necessary to form a contract?

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Offer, Acceptance, Consideration, Intention, Capacity & Legailty

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How is a contract executed?

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Under hand: signed by both parties with a 6 year limitation period.
Under seal as a deed: signed and witness, 12 year limitation period.

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Common contract documents?

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  • The contract
  • Preliminaries
  • Contract Sum
  • Drawings
  • Specification
  • Planning agreements
  • ERs
  • Contractors Proposals
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JCT

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Joints Contract Tribunal
Contracts Administrator (Traditional)
Employer’s Agent (Design & Build)
- Oversees the project checking progress, payment, pc certs and notices of making good.

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NEC Contract

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New Engineering Contracts
Aimed at engineering projects but are easily adapted to building works.

  • Includes a process of early warning
  • PM overriding duty
  • Compensation rather than Relevant events
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What are the standard forms of JCT?

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Design & Build
Minor Works
Intermediate Building
Major Projects
Construction Management

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Design & Build

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Used by all types of clients, create a single point of responsibility for design and construction.

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Minor Works

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Not used for complex projects

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What is a collateral warranty?

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A way of forming a direct contractual link between two parties which otherwise wouldn’t have - i.e contractor and client.

  • use of quality and carrying out works in a professional manner
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What is a letter of intent?

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Outlining an agreement between two parties before a formal contract is created.

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Advantages of LOI

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  • Establishment of good faith
  • A summary of terms and structure of business transaction
  • Identifys significant concerns that are a deal breaker.
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Disadvantages of LOI

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If not worded properly, it may be considered as binding on the parties, resulting in unforeseen obligation.

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Performance Bond

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Form of financial security used to cover the client against the contractor failing to fulfil their contractual obligations.
Client pays for this

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Retention Bond

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Used instead of taking retention from interim valuations, used to improve contractor cash flow.

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PII

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Professional indemnity insurance
- Covers professional negligence

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Employer’s liability insurance

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Covers the injury and death arising from business activities.

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Types of payment methods

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  • Stage
  • Milestone
  • Third party certification
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19
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Construction Act introduced what?

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Right to fair payment

20
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Pay less notice?

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  • Issued after the final date for payment if the notice is unsound.
  • The notice must specify the sum that the party
21
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Elements in place for a contract?

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Capacity - those must be of sound mind.
Intent - clear intention for both parties to do business.
Consideration - allows anyone reading the contract to see something of value be exhanchged.
Lawfulness - must be legal
Offer- must explain the nature of the offer and explain the nature of the change, reponsibilities and costs. & what happens if someone doens’t oblige.
Acceptance - signature
Clarity of terms - to avoid a breach of terms, certainty must be provided.

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How is a contract under hand different from under deed?

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A deed is signed by the parties as well as a witness. Traditionally authenticated by a seal.
Whereas under hand in only signed by the parties of the contract.
Under hand = 6 years
Deed = 12.

23
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LADS

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A Genuine pre-estimate of the likley loss of the employer should the completion date not be met.
Need to be substantiated if applied.

24
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What in place before LDs to be deducted?

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Non-completion notice
Payless notice / witholding notice.

25
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What if the employer actually suffered no loss or damage?

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It doesn’t matter.
The damages can still be deducted at the value stated in the contract.

26
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What is the defects liability period?

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Duration at the end of the contract, where the contractor undertakes any defects at their own expense.

27
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If there is a discrepancy between the ER’s and CP which one takes precedence?

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The Contractor’s Proposals.

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What is a bespoke contract?

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Contract conditions are drafter specifically for a project.

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Advantages of standard forms over bespoke contract?

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Written by legal experts
Rights and obligation clearly set out
Risks should have been allocated
Parties should be familiar
Case law has built up over time.

Disadvantages: Risks is rarely questions and becomes implicit.
May not be appropriate to the needs of a particular project.

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When would you use a bespoke over standard form?

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Used for major project with novel

31
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Main parts of JCT contracts?

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  • Recitals
  • Articles
  • Contract Particulars
  • Attestations
  • Conditions
  • Schedule
32
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JCT Forms of Contracts?

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  • Minor works
  • Intermedite
  • SBC
  • Major Projects
  • Design & Build
33
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9 Sections

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  • Definitions and interpretations
  • Carrying out the works
  • Control of the works
  • Payment
  • Variations
  • Injury, damage and insurance
  • Assignment, third party rights and collateral warranties
  • Termination
  • Settlement of disputes
34
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When would you use JCT minor works?

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  • Simple in nature
  • Project shorter in duration
    -JCT guidance up to £200,000
  • Lump sum
35
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JCT Intermediate contract

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  • Projects that don’t exceed one year duration
  • Simple in content and require only basic skills
36
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JCT Standard contract

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  • Where the works have already been designed
37
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What Are Relevant Events?

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Events that entitle to EOT.
- 13 in total
- Vairations/ instructions
- Deferment of posession of site
- Suspesnsion by the contractor for non-payment
- Exeptionally adverse weather conditions
- Strike or lock out
- Civil commotion or terrorism
- Force Majeuore

38
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EOT without a L&E claim?

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Yes an EOT does not automatically mean entitlement to L&E

39
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Certificates under JCT?

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Interim Payment certs
PC, PP or SC
Non Completion Certs
Cert of making good

40
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Partial Posession?

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Relies on the contractor’s consent.

41
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Sectional Completion?

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Contractual obligation to hand over the section at the stated date

42
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What is PC

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Is a vague concept, not defined in the JCT, common pracitce where works are substantially complete and works dont prevent beneficial occupancy.

43
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NEC

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New Engineering Contract

44
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Disadvantages of the NEC

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They are often only considered to be used for civil engineering project and partnerships.

45
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NEC

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The role of the qs is not included in the contract.
The QS can adopt a supporting role

46
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Specified Perils?

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Significant events that would cause significant damage - fire, explosions, earthquakes, flooding etc.

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