Keating on Offshore Contruction and Marine Engineering Contracts

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Description
The task of updating an existing text would appear at the outset less daunting than starting from scratch, and of course in many ways it is. However, as the process of revision and improving takes shape, it brings its own challenges and rewards. Hopefully, the text of this second edition has a broader base - now that we are considering the NEC4 standard form amongst those engineering forms used on offshore projects - and some refined comment and thought. The style of the NEC suite of contracts is in distinct contrast to the older shipbuilding forms and even the newer engineering forms which are utilised both on and offshore. Consideration of the FIDIC form has been updated to reflect the latest 2017 edition. There have also been some interesting developments in the law relating to the types of conditions seen in offshore contracts, such as no oral amendment clauses, considered definitively by the Supreme Court in Rock Advertising Limited v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited [2018] UKSC 24; and clauses more commonly now found in land-based construction contracts dealing with the allocation of risk for concurrent delay (in North Midland Building Limited v Cyden Limited [2018] EWCA Civ 1744) which, given their enforceability, may start to find their way into offshore engineering and shipbuilding contracts to the Owner's benefit. The thanks which must be extended for the production of any second edition go not only to the contributing authors of the present text, but of course those (now unnamed on the list of contributors - but they know who they are) who contributed to the first edition upon which this book, obviously, is heavily based. Their work has been invaluable in updating and revising the text. I would also like to thank Sir Nicholas Hamblen and Sir Vivian Ramsey for agreeing to provide a foreword again. My thanks also go to Abdul-Lateef Jinadu for his assistance with organising the team, and to the never-ending patience of the
helpful team at Sweet & Maxwell.
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Table of Contents
1. The Nature of an Offshore Construction Contract
2. Introduction to the Standard Forms
3. General Principles of Contract
4. Payment and Damages
5. Performance
6. Change
7. Time for Deliveryand Completion
8. Termination
9. Gurantiees, Bonds and Insurance
10. Passing of Title, Risk, Liens and Delivery up
11. Dispute Resolution
Appendices
Index
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Author Details
Adam Constable Q.C, M.A. (Oxon) Bencheer of Inner Temple