Legal & Commercial

LEGAL AND COMMERCIAL

The group 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 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 group 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 group meets quarterly. Members include representatives of the following ACE member companies and affiliates: AECOM, Beale & Co, BWB Consulting, BuroHappold, Brunel Professions, 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 BuroHappold.

USEFUL DOCUMENTS

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.

Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) guidance

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.

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.

Cladding an ongoing concern for PI Insurers

Article from Willis Towers Watson on cladding.

Professional Indemnity Insurance GPG November 2018

Prepared in conjunction 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 - 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.

ACE webinar - Professional Appointment Contracts

Slides from the ACE hosted webinar.

ACE webinar - GDPR FAQs

Summary of questions following ACE hosted webinar on GDPR.

ACE webinar - GDPR

Slides from the ACE hosted webinar with experts from Pennington Manches.

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.

Cyber Risk Management ‘Top Tips’

Prepared by ACE affiliate, Wallis Towers Watson.

Payment culture

ACE responds to consultation on payment culture.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

17 NOV 2020