Are your Terms of Contract/Appointment now out of Date?

Date: Wednesday, 24 Feb 2016, 18:30 - 20:30 Location: The Holiday Inn - Maidenhead, Manor Lane, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 2RA Member cost: £0 (including VAT) Non-member cost: £0 (including VAT)

The RIBA, RICS & ACE terms of appointment and most standard Building Contracts are currently non-compliant with Statutory Regulations

The changes that came into force as a result of the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 mean that most professionals’ and contractors’ terms of contract are probably no longer valid and may be illegal when your client is a Homeowner. As a consequence you may not be entitled to be paid.

Mark Thomas

BSc, MSc, LLM, Dip Adj, FRICS, FCIArb

Will explain how to:-

• Get an appropriate contract/appointment in place with a Homeowners to ensure you have the right to be paid
• Avoid fines of £5,000.00 for non-compliance with the new Regulations
• The importance of giving some clients ‘cooling off’ rights and what happens if you do not

Mark Thomas is a Chartered Surveyor specialising in construction contracts advice and dispute resolution. He has acted as an expert witness in litigation and arbitration for over 25 years. He has served on the Councils of the Academy of Experts, the CIArb and the RICS QS division. He is the immediate past Chairman of the Thames Valley Branch of the CIArb and is a practising construction adjudicator.