Search
LPA 66 – Overview and Review of the Construction Act Payment Provisions
Published February 2018 Part II of the Housing Grants (Construction and Regeneration Act) 1996 (“the Act”) requires all “construction contracts” (as defined…
Publications
To view a spreadsheet showing the available AGS publications, with hyperlinks to the documents, please click here.
To view the Loss Prevention Alerts Index, please click here.
To view the contents page for the Loss Prevention Guidance 2022, please click here.
To sign up to the mailing list to receive the AGS Magazine, please click here.
If you have any feedback on the AGS Guidance, please contact ags@ags.org.uk.
LPA 67 – Japanese Knotweed – Professionals should know the law and their responsibilities
Originally published February 2018. Updated September 2018 and February 2020. Further updated in January 2025. In the County Court case of Waistell…
LPA 68 – Guidance on Duty of Care arising from Third Party reliance on a geotechnical report: BDW Trading Ltd v Integral Geotechnique (Wales) Ltd [2018] EWHC 1915 (TCC)
Published in September 2018 On 25 July 2018 the Technology and Construction Court (“TCC”) handed down judgment in the case of BDW…
LPA 69 – The need for well-defined objectives and scope agreed by the Client and Ground Engineering Specialist
Published in January 2019. A common cause of disagreement (and in some cases legal dispute) between a client and the ground engineering…
LPA 70 – Liability of Parent Companies for overseas subsidiaries – Vedanta Resources PLC and another v Lungowe and others [2019] UKSC 20
Published December 2019. In April 2019, the Supreme Court held in the above case that a parent company based in the UK…
LPA 71 – Duty to Warn on a Construction Project – Managing the Risk
Published May 2021 Construction operations, if not undertaken with appropriate care, have the potential to cause serious harm to those involved and…
LPA 72 – Reminder of the Problems with Indemnities
Published January 2023. Loss Prevention Alert 30 was published in January 2005 and described the issues with indemnities in commercial contracts that…
LPA 73 – Liability for Subcontractor’s Fraud
Published January 2023 An AGS member has reported an incident which has left them liable to their client for the dishonest conduct…
LPA 74 – The Building Safety Act 2022: Significant Changes to the Limitation Period Under The Defective Premises Act 1972
Published February 2023 The Building Safety Act 2022 (“the Act”), which came into force on 28 June 2022, brought about significant changes…
LPA 75 – Safeguarding Contractual Caps on Liability
Published February 2023 The commercial importance of limiting your liability under your appointments and the ways in which this can be successfully…