Conflict Avoidance Coalition: The Pledge, A Lawyer’s Perspective
The article presents a lawyer’s perspective on the Conflict Avoidance Pledge (CAP), explaining how it complements formal dispute resolution methods and highlighting its benefits in fostering early intervention, reducing legal costs, and promoting a collaborative construction industry.
Created: 5 February 2025
Last Reviewed: 5 February 2025
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Introduction
The coalition is a group comprised of around 20 of the UK’s foremost professional and industry bodies who are leading a campaign to reduce financial and other costs associated with construction and engineering disputes.
The Coalition’s aims are to:
- Encourage individuals, businesses and organisations to adopt the Conflict Avoidance Pledge and embed its principles into their culture and practice.
- Actively promote collaboration and use of effective dispute avoidance and management to the construction and engineering industry.
- Provide information and guidance to the construction and engineering industry on a wide range of conflict avoidance and early intervention techniques.
- Help contracting parties to put into practise practical conflict avoidance and management procedures to deal with actual and evolving disputes early, quickly, and effectively.
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