Finsen’s The Building Contract: A Commentary on the JBCC Agreements

About this publication: The first edition of The Building Contract by the late Eyvind Finsen was published in 1999 and followed on the 1991 publication of The New Building Contract. The earlier book was an introduction to the new Joint Buildings Contract Committee…

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Leading corporate law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr welcomes Luntu Sebatane as a new partner in the Corporate and Commercial practice. She comes with solid legal experience,...

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Special Economic Zones – An efficient instrument to increase industrialisation

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Construction & Engineering Law

Finsen’s The Building Contract: A Commentary on the JBCC Agreements

Zimbabwe signs MOU with Chinese investors for ‘Disneyland in Africa’

Is there still place for fixed-term contracts in the construction industry?

Bowmans moves the Gautrain forward

Revised Construction Sector Code deconstructed

Inland and coastal refineries and the cost of transporting oil – Transnet v Total

The case of the unconditional guarantee that wasn’t

The duty to disclose business rescue proceedings

New Partner In Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr’s Corporate And Commercial Practice

Special Economic Zones – An efficient instrument to increase industrialisation

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