Assume that you are employed as the contract manager for a construction project of which the bespoke type of contract is adopted. The contracting parties are free not to utilize the standard forms if they prefer to draw up a bespoke form, i.e., a non-standard condition of contract specific to the works and their requirements. Advise your client why the following areas are so important to be drafted in the bespoke contract. On the contrary, what are the general legal positions covering such areas if the bespoke contract does not include suitably drafted express provisions covering such areas.
1. site possession
2. Variations to the work
3. Determination of employment
4. extension of time