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Multi-tiered dispute resolution: the use of conciliation | JD Supra
In the UK, disputes in the construction industry are rarely resolved through conciliation, with parties preferring recourse to adjudication, mediation, litigation or arbitration. However, a recent Australian case highlights that in other jurisdictions, the idea of conciliation is more prevalent. What is Conciliation?
Time bar notices: specifying the contractual basis of claim | JD Supra
Can a valid claim notice issued, on time, referring to one contractual basis, be relied upon where a claim is ultimately pursued on a different ground? In the first authoritative case to consider this issue, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal ruled that it could not. Many construction contracts specify that notices of claim must contain certain information and be submitted within a certain time frame, failing which a claim may be 'time barred'.
Swive, Shakespeare's Globe London ✭✭✭✭
Helena Payne reviews Ella Hickson’s Swive, now playing at Shakespeare’s Globe in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Swive Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Shakespeare’s Globe London 4 Stars Book Now On the eve of a hotly contested and viciously fought general election, we settle into the warm rubic cube of the Sam Wanamaker playhouse; the chunky stage of gilded chipboard, an apt metaphor for Elizabeth I as a monarch.
REVIEW: As You Like It, RSC Barbican Theatre ✭✭✭
Helena Payne reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It now playing a the Barbican Centre. Sophie Khan Levy and Lucy Phelps. Photo: Topher McGrillis (c) RSC As You Like It Royal Shakespeare Company Barbican Theatre London 3 Stars Book Tickets It’s always a joy to be invited to a Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of your favourite comedies so with high hopes I settled into the cavernous whale’s belly of the Barbican’s great auditorium.
Old Stock, Wilton's Music Hall London ✭✭✭✭
Old Stock at Wilton’s describes itself as “A Refugee Love Story,” but it is also a timely comment by Canadian-based 2b Theatre on the topic of immigration; what it takes to leave your home and build another life in a distant land. On a day when across the planet, children and young people are striking and demanding action for climate change, it is easy to see the relevance of this individual story and its applicability to the mass migration we are starting to see globally. The cast of Old Stock.
'Common Law Common Sense' delay analysis | JD Supra
Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.
A strong Lorna for our troubled times - Pleasure Dome Theatre Company
Our very own Helena Payne talks about Pleasure Dome Theatre Company’s production of Lorna Doone at the Valley Of The Rocks. This, the fourth year Pleasure Dome Theatre Company have tempted the elements on the windswept coast of North Devon, contains many firsts: a new cast, a major anniversary (Lorna Doone was written 150 years ago), a new script – dramatised by Helena Stafford Northcote – and above all, fantastic weather.
When Do Defects Prevent Practical Completion? | JD Supra
Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.
Mary's Babies, Jermyn Street Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Helena Payne reviews Mary’s Babies a play by Maud Dromgoole now playing at the Jermyn Street Theatre London. Emma Fielding and Katy Stephens in Mary’s Babies. Photo: Robert Workman Mary’s Babies Jermyn Street Theatre 23 March 2019 5 Stars Book Tickets Jermyn Street Theatre’s latest offering is the sublime Mary’s Babies written by the astonishingly gifted Maud Dromgoole and directed with sensitivity and wit by Tatty Hennesey.
REVIEW: Admissions, Trafalgar Studios London ✭✭✭✭
Helena Payne reviews Alex Kingston in Admissions by Joshua Harmon now playing at Trafalgar Studios, London. Alex Kingston (Sherri) and Sarah Hadland (Ginnie) in Admissions. Photo: Johan Persson Admissions Trafalgar Studios 4 Stars Book Now Sherri Rosen-Mason played by Alex Kingston is head of Admissions at an aspirational school; she lives in an aspirational house with an aspirational kitchen and her aspirational husband, the headteacher.
REVIEW: Shipwreck, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭
By Helena Payne on 20th February 2019 in Reviews Helena Payne reviews Anne Washburn’s Shipwreck directed by Rupert Gould now playing at the Almeida Theatre. The cast of Shipwreck at the Almeida Theatre. Photo: Marc Brenner Shipwreck Almeida Theatre 19 February 2019 3 Stars Book Tickets Anne Washburn’s Shipwreck at the Almeida is a long show and really feels it.
REVIEW: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Wyndham's Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece Long Day’s Journey Into Night is a daunting piece of theatre. Over three and a half hours with five actors is not a lot of let up. It bucks the trend for shorter snappier plays that pander to everyone’s shortening attention span, but then this project was never about pandering to any current trends. It is a stand-alone triumph of art and craft and a real jewel of a production in the West End’s crown.
REVIEW: The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk, Wilton's Music Hall ✭✭✭✭✭
The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk Wilton’s Music Hall 23 January 2018 5 Stars Book Now The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk is one of Kneehigh’s most enduring shows. In various iterations it has lit up stages and other more daring performance spaces across the UK and internationally for nearly 20 years.
REVIEW: Goats, Royal Court Theatre ✭✭
Goats is a major new work by playwright and documentary-maker Liwaa Yazji and The Royal Court. It focuses on a small Syrian town where a new government initiative replaces every martyred son with a goat leading to what can only be described as cloven-hoofed anarchy. There is certainly some frisson to actors sharing the stage with a cast of incredibly charismatic goats, however the novelty soon wears off to reveal a play, sadly, about as dramatically refined as Hackney City Farm.
REVIEW: Miss Julie, Jermyn Street Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
It takes a brave team to approach a piece as iconic as Strindberg’s Miss Julie. The last production I saw, Yael Farber’s South African adaptation – Mies Julie at the Riverside Studios in 2013 – for me blew every previous incarnation out of the water, so it was with some trepidation that I settled into the Jermyn Street’s cosy theatre to see Howard Brenton’s latest offering. The evening did not disappoint.
REVIEW: The Wind In The Willows, London Palladium ✭✭✭
The Wind In the Willows London Palladium 29 June 2017 3 Stars Book Now The Wind in the Willows at the Palladium is a bit of an oxymoron in and of itself; Designer Peter McKintosh does little to evoke the gentle idyll of the English countryside of Kenneth Grahame’s classic story, preferring to present this juggernaut musical with a huge spiralling tree ring and precisely spaced willows hanging clinically over the cavernous space.
REVIEW: Barbershop Chronicles, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Within the Afro-Caribbean black community hair is a thing. So, where better to dramatise this than a Barbershop. The production at The National’s Dorfman studio chronicles interweaving stories and characters going for a trim in London, Lagos and beyond. It's an examination of black masculinity and what this means in the 21st century.
REVIEW: The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭✭
The Donmar are not holding back with Bruce Norris’s new adaptation of the Brechtian classic, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. There is star power in the form of national treasure Lenny Henry, a stonking cast who perform with real attack and some exceedingly thinly veiled jibes at the current American administration. The two hours and forty-five minutes fizzed by and in true Brechtian style inspired a full-blown rebellion in the audience.
REVIEW: Chigger Foot Boys, Tara Arts Theatre ✭✭✭
Chigger Foot Boys Tara Arts Theatre 25 February 2017 3 StarsBook TicketsPatricia Cumper’s Chigger Foot Boys is a thought-provoking tale that winds itself around five strangers, brought together by a fateful game of Dominoes in a rum bar in Kingston on the eve of the Great War. The story then jumps from the boozy present to the future where their lives interlink again, often with tragic consequences. The perspective feels fresh and the characters are beautifully portrayed by this small ensemble.
REVIEW: Twelfth Night, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Tamsin Greig leads a triumphant Twelfth Night at The National, ingeniously re-imaging one of Shakespeare’s most bitter misanthropes as Malvolia. The production is gloriously wacky and stunning to behold. Truly I saw the future of theatre, and it was beautiful. The pre-set was cold and icy; what seemed like the prow of a steel ship protruded aggressively toward the audience under a canopy of stars that twinkled with malice.
REVIEW: Henry V, Southwark Cathedral ✭✭✭✭✭
Antic Disposition’s Henry V deserves its revival tour of British Cathedrals. It is a slick theatrical operation, well-acted, well-designed and well-conceived. The premise for the production is simple yet smart; French and English soldiers in a military hospital act out Shakespeare’s history play ironically close to where 500 years before their forces clashed at Agincourt.
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