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• Does a contractor or subcontractor lose entitlements to extensions of time if he fails to submit the appropriate notices and details required by the contract?

• Are minutes of site meetings considered by the courts to be adequate notices of delay required by extension of time clauses?

• What is meant by a contractor or subcontractor having to ‘use constantly his best endeavours to prevent delay’?

• If the architect/engineer issues a variation after the extended completion date but before practical completion, can an extension of time be granted or will liquidated damages become unenforceable?

• If work is delayed due to two or more competing causes of delay, one of which is the responsibility of the contractor/subcontractor or a neutral event and the other is a result of some fault of the architect, engineer or employer, is there an entitlement to an extension of time or loss and expense?

• Is a notice which does not quote contract clause numbers adequate or does the contractor/subcontractor risk losing his contractual rights where these references are omitted?

• Where delays occur to the main contract works due to the time taken to correct latent defects in a nominated subcontractor's work after the subcontract works have been completed, does this give the main contractor the right to an extension of time if the contract makes provision for extensions of time due to delays on the part of nominated subcontractors? Where delays occur to the main contract works due to the time taken to correct latent defects in a nominated subcontractor's work after the subcontract works have been completed, does this give the main contractor the right to an extension of time if the contract makes provision for extensions of time due to delays on the part of nominated subcontractors? Where delays occur to the main contract works due to the time taken to correct latent defects in a nominated subcontractor's work after the subcontract works have been completed, does this give the main contractor the right to an extension of time if the contract makes provision for extensions of time due to delays on the part of nominated subcontractors?

• Where delays occur to the main contract works due to the time taken to correct latent defects in a nominated subcontractor's work after the subcontract works have been completed, does this give the main contractor the right to an extension of time if the contract makes provision for extensions of time due to delays on the part of nominated subcontractors?

• Can an architect/engineer grant an extension of time after the date for completion has passed?

• When an architect/engineer is considering a contractor's application for an extension of time, can he reduce the period to which the contractor is entitled to reflect time saved by work omitted?

• Where a contractor's progress is behind programme, will he be entitled to an extension of time where the progress and completion is affected by exceptionally adverse weather but would not have been so affected if work had been on programme?