Airport terminal overspend recoup bid knocked back
Thursday 18th August 2011, 2:29PM BST.
THE latest efforts to claw back money from the airport terminal project’s £4.2m. overspend have been blocked by the High Court Of Justice.
An appeal had been launched by the Public Services Department to the UK Technology and Construction Court to determine whether the States had a right to claim back additional costs from one of the projects consultant engineers through arbitration – a process of resolving disputes by referring them to a third party.
But the department’s claim that an agreement had been made with this clause was dismissed by Justice Akenhead.
He said the dispute against Jacobs UK Ltd, formerly Babtie, could not be settled in this way because the court could not determine that an arbitration agreement had been made.
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Just wait and see what the overspend on this runway repair is.
Predicted cost? £82,000,000
Actual cost? Anyone care to bet it will top £100,000,000.
The only good thing will be that Deputy Flouquet will have to face the fact that this is his baby and he alone will be responsible for anything going wrong. Get your resignation papers ready Bernard or PROVE ME WRONG.
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If Teflon-Bernie can survive the Incinerator debacle* and jokegate, an odd £18m here or there will be of little consequence.
One has to ask why he survives given that it is possibly not his popular appeal
(*which cost us £3.7m, but wait to see if Suez pops up again later this year offering some of it back in exchange for another incinerator contract … )
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Some perspective as to the hostility towards Deputy Flouquet is needed:
Why was he elected by the current States of Deliberation, who must have known that there were various major projects in the ‘works’, and why therefore, is his competetence always questioned?
Surely our democratic system allows us to eventually sort the ‘wheat from the chaff’? There’s no point knocking the man if he is delivering the necessary.
Of course, any politician that can ride wave after wave of systemic and personal criticism, and we have our CM Deputy Trott, at the vanguard, should be lauded for being a laughing stock in the face of the facts, are to be applauded and recommended for future office.
Maybe with organising EVEN more important projects in the lighog the GEP’s new Guru De Jour, Mr J Winser.
On one hand we’re great because the States have ‘carved a niche with the Yanks* so we can do what we do best and carve and carve for all those other guys…”, on the next hand (and the other one), we can’t help anyone, anymore on our doorstep because we’re gonna be so, so poor.
*Is there any open information about what actually happened on *that* trip to Washington, where the full force of CM Trott’s ‘personality’ enabled a ‘revision’ of Sen. Carl Levin’s proposal in the SENATE of the USA to remove Guernsey from a list of secrecy jurisdictions that enable foreign finance instruments to circumvent laws in their own lands?
I know it’s the wrong thread, but hey, don’t we all want some transparency?
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Apologies for the typos, my US clients can’t bear it if I sleep.
Did I say US clients? I meant the noise of the rubbish collectors.
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