Overview

Drawing on our specialist expertise across construction, planning, and procurement law, the team at Carson McDowell will guide attendees through emerging issues and real world implications for clients, consultants, quarry owners, contractors, and public bodies.

Agenda Highlights:

• Construction Law Update
• A review of recent case law and emerging trends affecting the contracts used for highways and transport infrastructure projects, including developments in contract interpretation, payment, claims and dispute resolution.
• Planning – Emerging Grounds for Judicial Review of Major Infrastructure Projects
• An examination of the evolving grounds for Judicial Review, with insights from recent challenges to highways and Infrastructure schemes and guidance on minimising vulnerability.
• Procurement – Reflections on the Procurement Act
• An overview of the lessons learnt since the introduction of the new Act in early 2025 and what that means for commissioning bodies, suppliers and supply chains, including implications for transparency, challenges, and compliance.

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Accessibility and Inclusion, Help & Support

We are working to ensure that the event is as comfortable and inclusive as possible.

You can contact us in confidence to ask questions and/or to let us know of any accessibility requirements or adjustments that you may have: northernireland@ciht.org.uk.