Legal & Commercial

LEGAL AND COMMERCIAL FORUM

The forum examines legal, commercial, liability, risk and insurance issues that our members face. They also help ACE to shape our support to members in these areas.

Unlike other ACE forums and groups, membership is also mixed with other organisations that have an interest in the topics of discussion including specialist legal firms. This ensures their invaluable insight and expertise can inform discussions from the outset and helps the group to pre-empt and proactively address legal and risk issues of concern to the entire industry.

Alongside this activity the forum monitors issues around professional indemnity insurance, legal and contractual developments and produces in-depth expert guidance for our members to deal with these issues.

Much of this output can be found in the Resource Hub on our website.

The forum meets quarterly. Members include representatives of the following ACE member companies and affiliates: AECOM, Arup, Beale & Co, BWB Consulting, BuroHappold, GHD Livigunn, Hurst Peirce & Malcolm LLP, Max Fordham, MW Barber Associates, MLM Consulting, Mott MacDonald, Ramboll UK and Royal HaskoningDHV.

The chair is Margot Day of Arup.

USEFUL DOCUMENTS

PI Insurance FAQs 2022

Prepared for members in conjunction with affiliate, Griffiths & Armour.

Contract management for consultants

Member only guidance produced by Beale & Co for ACE.

G&A - Preparing for PI Insurance renewal (2021)

Guidance prepared for members by affiliate Griffiths & Armour on 2021 renewals.

Pricing: Learning from other industries

Slides from our webinar with Margot Day, Nick Smith and Sarah Wilkes.

ACE ACTIVITY PLAN 2021

The annually updated programme of work for ACE.

ACE CORPORATE PLAN 2021 TO 2023

ACE's three year corporate plan outlines the work themes for the association.

Construction Playbook

Member-only briefing on the key points from the Construction Playbook.

Hardening of the PI Insurance market

Slides from our ACE Insight webinar with affiliate Griffiths & Armour.

Three ways to sense-check your R&D claim

Slides from our ACE Inisght webinar with affiliates ForrestBrown.

Risk, Professional Indemnity insurance and contracts post-COVID

Slides from our ACE Insight webinar with affiliate Brodies.

Navigating COVID-19: SMEs & CJRS

How SMEs are dealing with crisis and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

Navigating COVID-19: Emergency Response

Webinar series helping members through the coronavirus crisis.

G&A - PI Insurance guidance (2020)

January 2020 update. Produced by ACE affiliate, Griffiths & Armour.

Commercial Strategy Procurement and Contract Terms

Navigates best practice in this space.

Stand-Alone Certificates and Actions in Negligent Misstatement

Produced by ACE Affiliates Griffith & Armour.

Novation - Resource Guide

All ACE Novation resources.

Professional Appointment Contracts - Resource Guide

All resources about Professional Appointment Contracts in one document.

Using Project Extranets Good Practice Guide

This guide focuses on the issues surrounding extranet and online collaboration tools.

Professional Indemnity Insurance GPG

Prepared in partnership with Griffiths & Armour.

Quality Management System - good practice guide for micro companies

Produced by Abstruct Consulting.

Quality Management System - good practice guide for solo companies

Prepared by ACE member Rivelin Bridge Ltd.

Response: Creating a responsible payment culture

BEIS consultation on good payment practice

Legal & Commercial forum - Terms of Reference

ACE webinar - Novation FAQs

FAQs produced following the ACE webinar on novation.

ACE webinar - Novation

Slides from the ACE webinar on novation.

Novation – good practice guide

To assist members who are involved in the negotiation of contracts.

ACE webinar - Professional Appointment Contracts

Slides from the ACE hosted webinar.

Professional Appointments Contracts – good practice

To assist members who are involved in the negotiation of contracts.

ACE webinar - GDPR FAQs

Summary of questions following ACE hosted webinar on GDPR.

ACE webinar - GDPR

Slides from the ACE hosted webinar with industry experts.

Anti-Bribery and Corruption Guidance

Raise members' awareness of the offences and penalties arising under the Bribery Act.

Business reporting requirements

Quick reference table for corporate reporting requirements.

Negotiating Limits of Liability

How members should deal with contractual liability.

Public Contracts Regulations

Explores the key provisions in PCR 2015 that may be helpful to SME members.

Payment culture

ACE responds to consultation on payment culture.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

09 NOV 2022