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| Article | Section | Place | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extension of timeMoving the completion date. The four elements a time claim must establish, the five defences that beat sound ones, and where each element is taken further. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Concurrent delayFive competing definitions and nine different answers on one fact pattern. Not settled law in any jurisdiction surveyed. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Notice and time barsThe element that defeats more sound claims than the other three combined. Three incompatible philosophies, and the statutory overrides now cutting across them. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Delay analysis methodsThe SCL and AACE taxonomies, why they do not map cleanly onto each other, and why your records decided the method months before the dispute. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Prolongation and delay costsThe money gateway. Compensation runs to the period the effect was felt, not to the weeks at the end of the job. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Records and evidenceWhich records support which analysis method, and what tribunals actually punish. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Extension of time in QuebecQuebec's Civil Code says nothing about time for completion. What fills the gap, and why a delay claim here is pleaded as fault rather than as entitlement. | Construction / Claims | Quebec | August 8, 2026 |
| Quebec vs common-law CanadaThirty-nine points at which a common-law-trained practitioner will get Quebec wrong, and the five things to fix in an imported precedent. | Construction / Claims | Quebec | August 8, 2026 |
| The Civil Code framework for delayArts 2098 to 2129 C.c.Q. contain no completion date and no extension mechanism. What follows from that absence. | Construction / Claims | Quebec | August 8, 2026 |
| Notice and time bars in QuebecClaim procedures are enforced strictly, and there are exactly three ways round one, plus two clocks that run independently. | Construction / Claims | Quebec | August 8, 2026 |
| Concurrent delay in QuebecThere is no Quebec doctrine of concurrent delay. What apportionment of fault does instead, and why the burden starts against the contractor. | Construction / Claims | Quebec | August 8, 2026 |
| Delay penalties and the clause pénaleA penal clause is valid and enforceable without proof of loss, and reducible. The characterisation argument a common lawyer reaches for does not exist here. | Construction / Claims | Quebec | August 8, 2026 |
| Extension of time in CanadaCanadian delay law is common law and contract, and no province has a delay statute. Notice, concurrency, liquidated damages and what changes at the border. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| Delay regimes by Canadian provinceWhat actually changes when a delay claim crosses a provincial border: limitation variation, lien periods, adjudication scope and trust status. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| Notice and time bars in CanadaGC 6.5.4, the ten-working-day clock, and why the owner does not have to prove prejudice. Where a Canadian delay claim dies most often. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| Concurrent delay in CanadaCanada apportions. Schindler, Walsh v TTC, the critical-path evidentiary standard, and why the English full-extension rule does not travel. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| Liquidated damages and the penalty rule in CanadaCanada has not adopted Cavendish. The two-limb test, Chandos anti-deprivation, and no statutory bar anywhere on no-damage-for-delay clauses. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| The prevention principle and time at large in CanadaPerini Pacific, the unreconciled no-damage-for-delay attribution, and the open question of whether a public-health order is a stop work order. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| Prolongation and delay costs in CanadaWhat is recoverable and how it is proved: Shore & Horwitz corrected, Ellis-Don corrected, and the Canadian authorities that do not exist. | Construction / Claims | Canada | August 8, 2026 |
| Extension of time in OntarioOntario made an extension of time adjudicable on 1 January 2026 and alone lets a contract shorten limitation. Five clocks, three regimes. | Construction / Claims | Ontario | August 8, 2026 |
| Ontario delay claim clocksEvery deadline that can kill an Ontario delay claim, grouped by clock: notice, adjudication, lien, holdback and limitation, with the character in law of each. | Construction / Claims | Ontario | August 8, 2026 |
| Notice and time bars in OntarioTechnicore, Elite, Ross-Clair and the limit of the rule in J.P. Thomson, plus the OAA/OGCA package that leaves GC 6.5 untouched. | Construction / Claims | Ontario | August 8, 2026 |
| Prompt payment and adjudication in OntarioO. Reg. 264/25 s 19 made time adjudicable: ancillary, non-P3, and only on contracts dated on or after 1 January 2026. | Construction / Claims | Ontario | August 8, 2026 |
| Limitation periods and claim accrual in OntarioOntario alone lets commercial parties shorten or exclude a limitation period, and Leveque shows how easily the clause is drafted wrong. | Construction / Claims | Ontario | August 8, 2026 |
| Liens, holdback and security in OntarioDoes an Ontario lien secure a delay claim? Partly, on a price-versus-damages line, with the 60/90 clocks unchanged and s 27.1 repealed. | Construction / Claims | Ontario | August 8, 2026 |
| Extension of time in AlbertaThe best Canadian forum for a private delay claim and the worst for a public one. Two Acts, two regimes, and the forum is the risk, not the doctrine. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Alberta delay claim clocksEvery deadline that can kill an Alberta delay claim, grouped by clock, and the procedural rules that bite after all of them are met. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Prompt payment and adjudication in AlbertaThe widest consent gateway in Canada on private work, and a statutory carve-out of delay on provincial public works. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Notice and time bars in AlbertaThe Public Works Act 45-day registered-mail notice, GC 6.5.4, and the appellate authority Alberta may not actually have. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Limitation periods and claim accrual in AlbertaTwo years from discovery, ten years ultimate, and a limitation period the parties may extend but cannot lawfully shorten. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Liens, the lien fund and trust in AlbertaThree separate mechanisms, routinely conflated. No Certificate of Substantial Performance means no trust at all. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Arbitration and forum in AlbertaDelay causation is mixed fact and law, so the award is final. One expert per subject matter, no construction list, and dismissal for delay. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Oil, gas and industrial construction in AlbertaNo standard EPC form, no turnaround authority, no AER-delay authority, and a lien that attaches to the mineral. | Construction / Claims | Alberta | August 9, 2026 |
| Extension of time in British ColumbiaBC created the Canadian law of delay and has barely touched it since 2015. Lien clocks, purposive notice, apportionment, and no adjudication yet. | Construction / Claims | British Columbia | August 10, 2026 |
| British Columbia delay claim clocksIn BC the clock that kills a delay claim is a Builders Lien Act clock, 45 days, 55 days, one year. Not the two-year Limitation Act. | Construction / Claims | British Columbia | August 10, 2026 |
| Notice and time bars in British ColumbiaBC reads construction notice clauses purposively, not mechanically. Less strict than Ontario's Technicore line. And it cuts both ways. | Construction / Claims | British Columbia | August 10, 2026 |
| Prevention and time at large in British ColumbiaBC holds the strongest candidate for a Canadian judgment finding time at large, Hawl-Mac (1985), plus both national prevention anchors. | Construction / Claims | British Columbia | August 10, 2026 |
| Concurrent delay and apportionment in British ColumbiaBC apportions concurrent delay as damages, not entitlement, no Malmaison, no dominant cause, no first-in-time, and no ruling on North Midland drafting. | Construction / Claims | British Columbia | August 10, 2026 |
| Prolongation, acceleration and quantum in British ColumbiaGolden Hill is probably not a BC acceleration case. What BC pays for delay: actual-cost overhead, the W A Stephenson total-cost gateway, no methodology. | Construction / Claims | British Columbia | August 10, 2026 |
| Limitation periods and claim accrual in British ColumbiaIn BC the Builders Lien Act clocks, not the Limitation Act, kill delay claims. Contracting out is unsettled and no BC case decides accrual. | Construction / Claims | British Columbia | August 10, 2026 |
| Liens, holdback and the statutory trust in British ColumbiaBC does have a construction trust. Builders Lien Act ss 10–14. The 45-day lien clock, 55-day holdback and hard one-year trust limit, explained. | Construction / Claims | British Columbia | August 10, 2026 |
| Prompt payment and adjudication in British ColumbiaBC has no prompt payment or adjudication: the Construction Prompt Payment Act is not in force, and will apply only to contracts made after commencement. | Construction / Claims | British Columbia | August 10, 2026 |
| Arbitration, experts and forum in British ColumbiaBC delay doctrine stalled because s 59 and Sattva make arbitral EOT findings unreviewable. The expert duty is s 35, and BC caps no experts. | Construction / Claims | British Columbia | August 10, 2026 |
| Public works and infrastructure in British ColumbiaMOTI, Site C and BC P3 delay clauses compared: 14-day and 5-business-day notice, time-only weather relief, no Crown notice, climate risk left to drafting. | Construction / Claims | British Columbia | August 10, 2026 |
| VariationsScope and price. The five elements a variation claim must establish, why agreeing a value may not pay for the time it cost, and where each element is taken further. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| What counts as a variationThe scope question, and why the Privy Council held in 2026 that it turns on the contract terms rather than on how the parties behaved on site. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Written instruction and waiverYou did the work and there is no written instruction. Five regimes, five answers, and on US public work the rule is one estoppel cannot cure. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Constructive and deemed variationsThe claim for a variation nobody instructed, and why the doctrine does not exist outside the United States, only functional substitutes measured differently. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Valuation and the pricing ladderContract rates, then adjusted rates, then a fair valuation, then daywork. You may not skip a rung, and NEC4 has no ladder at all. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 | |
| Change order releasesImpact claims die in signed change orders, not in tribunals. The reservation language that works, and two citations the commentary gets backwards. | Construction / Claims | August 7, 2026 |