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June 16, 2024

How I Started Practising Construction Law

Quiz night in a local pub For the most part of 2019, a group of friends and I met in a local pub in Kampala every […]
June 16, 2024

Deductibles as they apply to construction works

Over a decade ago, while in public office, I was part of a team working on a portfolio of large infrastructure projects funded by the World […]
November 16, 2022

The Research Project – Part Five

Section five – Increasing the use of mediation amidst FIDIC’s dominance Blake et al. (2016, pp 24-27) assert that there are circumstances where ADR (and therefore […]
November 14, 2022

The Research Project – Part Four

Section two – Exposure with (dispute resolution) DR under FIDIC In Figure 7 below, the research shows that the participants predominantly used FIDIC’s 1999 Red and […]
November 7, 2022

The Research Project – Part Three

Abstract Most public infrastructure contracts in Uganda are based on the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) standard forms of contract (SFC), which accord adjudication the […]
October 17, 2022

The Literature Review – Part Two

Click here to access Part One.   3.0 Key threats to the uptake of mediation   3.1 Adjudication In Agapiou and Clark’s (2011) research, a select […]
October 11, 2022

The Literature Review – Part One

1.0 The Introduction This literature review aims to appreciate the challenges of using mediation as an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) approach for construction-related disputes in Uganda, […]
June 25, 2020

Technical Audit – An Auditee’s Perspective

Two professionals give an account of their experience with technical audit. These are the unwritten truths about the reasons for undertaking a technical audit in most organisations.
January 8, 2020

The Contractor’s Financial Claim – Part Four

In Part Three, the DAB reviewed the Contractor’s delay analysis, their computation of disruption costs linked to the delay analysis, and the associated prolongation costs.   […]
October 30, 2019

The Contractor’s Financial Claim – Part Three

Part Two concluded with the proceedings of the first day of the DAB hearing. Both parties presented their position on the Contractor’s claim. On the days […]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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