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The Fawley oil refinery dispute contains vital lessons because it exposes how the union bureaucracy responds to even the first signs of a broader fightback: not by being pressured into a fight but by working more closely with the employers to rein in and quash the potential for a wider struggle.

A picketer told the WSWS, “it is time to start fighting for our rights because we run this place really. It’s thanks to us, and yet they don’t want to give us anything and treat us like we’re nothing.”

On the day of the strike there was virtually no coverage—expressing nervousness over industrial action by workers as price gouging by the oil corporations leads to a further round of hikes in the fuels costs and energy bills that are provoking social anger over the rising cost of living.

Introduction A recent High Court case has provided reassurance that the courts will continue to respect and enforce clearly drafted exclusion and limitation of liability clauses, even broad ones, unless to do so would have the effect of excluding all liability for all breach or would reduce one partys obligations to a mere declaration of intent. On 30 March 2021, in Mott MacDonald Ltd v Trant Engineering Ltd, the High Court held that an exclusion or limitation of liability clause should be con...

A recent decision by the Technology & Construction Court (TCC), in the case of Mott MacDonald Ltd v Trant Engineering Ltd, centred on the interpretation of general exclusions and limitations of liability – an area where prior cases have left conflicting precedents. At issue was whether an “interpretive presumption” – an unwritten but generally assumed implication – might thwart an exclusion or limitation of liability when the breach of contract is deliberate. The ruling highlights th...