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Payment delays, reissued invoices, lengthy approval processes, and budget constraints can have significant consequences for contractors and consultants, and ultimately for project delivery. In the lead-up to the Unlocking Infrastructure Delivery Event on 18 September, Peter Barnard, Cox Yeats partner and host of the event, highlights practical challenges on infrastructure…

As government increasingly looks to public-private partnerships (PPPs) to support infrastructure delivery, the opportunities are significant, but so too are the complexities. In the lead-up to Unlocking Infrastructure Delivery on 18 September, Peter Barnard, Partner at Cox Yeats and host of the event, shares his perspective on the growing focus…

Standard form construction contracts are designed to allocate risk fairly, but what happens when those contracts are heavily amended? In this episode, Peter Barnard, Claudelle Pretorius and Chantal Mitchell unpack the four standard form construction contracts used in South Africa, JBCC, GCC, NEC and FIDIC, and explain how unnecessary or…

What happens when a company needs to remove a director who is also an employee? In this episode, Randhir Naiker, Benjamin Meadows, Jason Goodison and Sunil Hansji unpack the legal distinction between directors and employees, the procedures for removing a director under the Companies Act, and the separate employment law…

The latest episode of the Cox Yeats Podcast is now live. In this instalment, Peter Barnard, Claudelle Pretorius, and Chantal Mitchell explore the legal and practical challenges that arise when standard form construction contracts are amended. They discuss: - Which contracts are most commonly used in the public and private…