Legal Issues for Interior Designers and COVID-19
Date Published: 09/04/2020
Please join the BIID in conversation with lawyer Colin Jones of Hewitsons LLP to discuss legal considerations for interior designers during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Colin will be discussing the following;
- Contract formation
- Getting your terms and conditions in place
- Rights to terminate
- Force majeure – what does this mean?
- Frustration – how might this apply?
- Claims for extra time or payment
- How to operate a project considering the COVID-19 measures
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Colin is a Managing Partner at Hewitsons and a Partner in its Construction Law Team. Colin has drafted a series of standard form consultant appointments for the Association of Consultant Architects and the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID Contract CID/14). He is a Trustee of the Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry and a Council member of the Cambridge Interact Club of property and construction professionals. He undertakes training on contract law at the University of Cambridge's School of Architecture.
This webinar is worth 1 hour of structured CPD.
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