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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 |
| 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 |