It is usual at this time of the year to reflect on the past 12 months and look forward to the new year. These are a few of my thoughts on the matter. Rather predictably, the Society of Construction Law delay protocol began to disappear from our radar screens last year. Sadly, it seems to live on as a seminar lecture topic given mainly by those who were involved in its drafting in a vain attempt to breathe some life back into this unfortunate piece of work. Very occasionally it crops up in submissions made by parties in adjudication (not in court, for obvious reasons). Pleasingly 2004 seemed to pass with almost no reference to the protocol in any contracts that parties entered. Let us hope that there is no revival of it and that, on the lecture circuit, it is finally snuffed out.
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