http://londonwolf.livejournal.com/ The Howlin' 'n' Growlin' of a Werewolf of London - LiveJournal.com Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:27:24 GMT LiveJournal / LiveJournal.com londonwolf 10711264 personal http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/96397964/10711264 http://londonwolf.livejournal.com/ 100 95 http://londonwolf.livejournal.com/294173.html Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:27:24 GMT http://londonwolf.livejournal.com/294173.html Gah!<br /><br />I'm going through a contract for a job I will be acting as resident engineer on and it's just so full of stuff that you can't get your head around it's not funny! I'm an engineer - I like plain English! <br /><br />Here's an example of one of the clauses:<br /><br /><i> Subject to clauses 6.1A and 6.1B, if the constractor carries out additional works or incurs additional costs including any costs arising from delay or disruption to the progress of the works as a result of any of the matters referred to in clause 4.4(a), only in respect to any instructions given under clauses 2.3(a) and 2.3(d), or any matters referred to in paragraphs (b)(d)(e)(f) or (h) of clause 4.4, the engineer shall certify and the employer shall pay to the constractor such additional sums as the engineer after consultation with the contractor considers fair and reasonable provided that no such delay was caused by default on the part of the contractor and provided that the contractor shall have used all reasonable endeavours top mitigate any such additional costs. For the avoidance of doubt, the contractor shall not become entitled to any additonal sum pursuant to this clause 6.1 in respect of any Excluded Prolongation Costs for any perios of delay to the whole or part of the works other than such periods of delay caused soley by any matters referred to clause 4.4(a), only in respect to any instructions given under clauses 2.3(a) and 2.3(d), or any matters referred to in paragraphs (b)(d)(e)(f) or (h) of clause 4.4. The engineer shall be at liberty to instruct that any additional works are charged in accordance with the Daywork Schedule pursuant to clause 2.5. Likewise the engineer shall determine a fair and reasonable deduction to be made in respect of any omission of work.</i><br /><br />Aaaaaand breath! http://londonwolf.livejournal.com/294173.html public 7 http://londonwolf.livejournal.com/293851.html Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:17:00 GMT http://londonwolf.livejournal.com/293851.html So the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people has been released on compassionate grounds due to him dying of prostate cancer.<br /><br />Fair and justified or not?<br /><br />I'm in two minds over the whole thing. To be honest the whole case stinks. I'm not convinced he was the man responsible in the first place to be honest - I've always thought that he was a sacrificial lamb served up by Gadaffi to improve Libya's international relations.<br /><br />He has always, to the end, protested his innocence, and was going to launch a second appeal which he only dropped because of the release on compassionate grounds.<br /><br />Under compassionate grounds the severity of the original crime is not taken into account. A similar thing happened over the release of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs recently.<br /><br />It's nice to know that our justice system can be so altruistic, but if he truly was a mass murderer (which I guess we have to take as red as he was convicted for it) should he have been let out. I really don't know.<br /><br />What has really narked me about the whole saga though is the huge pressure put on our legal system by the endless stream of high profile Americans. Please stop trying to interfere with out judicial system. You really wouldn't give us a second glance if we tried to do the same with you.<br /><br />What do you think? http://londonwolf.livejournal.com/293851.html public 41