Legal group ACE's legal and compliance team provides important advice and guidance for member firms on all legal, contractual, insurance and other commercial issues affecting their business. With two barristers and a legal assistant on our staff members can be assured of a professional approach at all times. A wide range of legal briefing notes and other guidance is produced by the legal and compliance team. The team also heads up the ACE Business Helpline and leads the development of the ACE Agreements suite of contracts and oversees all of the organisation's contractual relationships with third parties.

	ACE legal and commercial group ACE's legal and commercial group considers the legal, commercial, liability, risk and insurance issues impacting on members' businesses and seeks to raise the profile of members' interests, within the construction and engineering industry as a whole.  For more information please click here.

	Most recent briefing Building for the UK’s future Enlarge   15 May 2013 ACE Centenary Annual Conference 2013 DIGITAL COPY  DOWNLOAD

	Additional briefings   Quarterly legal update - February 2012     ACE Adjudication form     Health and Safety handout from Beale and Company     Fee for intervention guidance note     Quarterly legal update     Beale and Company legal review 2011     Effective health and safety communication     Impact of the Eurozone Debit Crisis on Insurer Solvency     Doing Business in Iraq     Briefing on insurance against political unrest     Abolition of Default Retirement Age     Eurocode: 1990     Asbestos at Work Regulations - What it means to you     Pre Contract Risk Management     Contract Good Practice     The Importance of Good Communication on D & B Contracts     Smoking ban briefing note     Mediation     Construction Industry Council Procedure - Third Edition     Age Discrimination     Submitting your Professional Indemnity Insurance Proposal Form - What you need to know     Asbestos at Work Regulations - Potential Effects on your PI insurance     Asbestos at Work Regulations - Potential Effects on your PI insurance     BPF Consultancy Agreement     Disability Discrimination Act 1995 ("the Act") Part III     The Copyright and Regulated Rights Regulations 2003     Appointment Contract Risk Assessment     Users Guide to Adjudication     Users' Guide to Adjudication     Professional Indemnity Insurance - Terrorism and Toxic Mould

	Briefing notes Briefing notes are concise guides to specific issues. They aim to provide information about initiatives and developments that might affect member companies. In many cases they provide outline guidance of things members can do in response. ACE member companies have access to the range of briefing notes as part of their subscriptions; non-members may be able to purchase individual briefing notes through ACE Bookshop. To view a briefing note in full, please click on the appropriate heading. Bribery and Corruption Act  Age Discrimination Age Discrimination Guidance to Partnerships and LLPs Appointment Contract Risk Assessment  BPF Consultancy Agreement Construction Industry Council Procedure - Third Edition Construction Industry Scheme Revised Provisions: Guidance for Consultants Eurocode EN1990 The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 Disability Discrimination Act 1995 ("the Act") Part III Mediation Professional Indemnity Insurance - Terrorism and Toxic Mould NEC3 - Professional Services Contract June 2005 Submitting your Professional Indemnity Insurance Proposal Form - What you need to know