{"id":6453,"date":"2014-04-09T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T00:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2024-07-10T08:06:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T08:06:59","slug":"celebrating-the-30th-volume-of-building-construction-law-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/2014\/04\/09\/celebrating-the-30th-volume-of-building-construction-law-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the 30th Volume of Building &amp; Construction Law Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">The\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomsonreuters.com.au\/building-and-construction-law-journal-parts\/productdetail\/51284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building &amp; Construction Law Journal<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">started publishing in July 1985, and has now reached its 30<\/span><sup style=\"line-height: 19px\">th<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">\u00c2\u00a0volume.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first issue opened with an Editorial which noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Building and construction law is a rapidly evolving and very complex field. It was felt timely to produce a publication which would provide an overview of the entire area, keeping informed not only specialist lawyers, but also a wide range of others involved in the industry \u00e2\u20ac\u201c builders, contractors, engineers, architects, town planners and so on. The objective of this Journal, then, is to keep a watching brief on legal developments of importance or interest to those in the construction industry and their advisers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/BCL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6454\" alt=\"BCL\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/BCL.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/BCL.jpg 180w, https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/BCL-92x120.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Over the years, the Journal has considered topics such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>International commercial arbitration and alternative dispute resolution;<\/li>\n<li>The rights and remedies available to subcontractors;<\/li>\n<li>Proportionate liability in construction claims;<\/li>\n<li>Australian Standard Construction Contracts;<\/li>\n<li>Liquidated damages in construction contracts;<\/li>\n<li>Security of payment legislation and case law; and<\/li>\n<li>The advent of dispute avoidance processes, such as dispute review boards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <em>Building and Construction Law Journal<\/em> publishes articles, shorter \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Topics of Interest\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and book reviews that provide updates on legislative change, as well as debate and analysis on building and construction claims, disputes, contracts and court decisions. Each part also includes the Building and Construction law reports.<\/p>\n<p>As the Journal marks its 30<sup>th<\/sup> Volume, it continues to be led by John Dorter, an expert in construction contracts and dispute resolution. In addition, a range of Editors from Australian and global jurisdictions provide their wide-ranging expertise to the Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00c2\u00a0Building &amp; Construction Law Journal\u00c2\u00a0started publishing in July 1985, and has now reached its 30th\u00c2\u00a0volume. The first issue opened with an Editorial which noted: Building and construction law is a rapidly evolving and very complex field. It was felt timely to produce a publication which would provide an overview of the entire area, keeping informed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1880,40,4331,1337,4332,3666,2216,4333],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-and-construction-law-journal","tag-alternative-dispute-resolution","tag-bcl","tag-building-and-construction-law-journal-2","tag-commercial-arbitration","tag-construction-claims","tag-construction-contract","tag-john-dorter","tag-subcontractors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}