| Description | The file contains correspondence and enclosures, file notes, press clippings and meeting notes largely relating to the dispute between Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd and The South Bank Theatre Board over the fees payable, and mainly consists of correspondence between Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd and their solicitors Denton Hall & Burgin regarding legal arbitration. Specific topics include the exchange of official legal documents between solicitors, the commissioning of the drum revolve stage, auditing, interest due on overdue fees, fee calculations, payment of some of the fees, dialogue and letters between Sir Joseph Lockwood and Michael Kuhn about resolving the dispute, internal discussion of a settlement and acceptable final fee, the rejection of the offer and the continuation of legal arbitration, a settlement proposal from The South Bank Theatre Board, travel time and car hire charges, claims against Theatre Projects Consultants, safety of the Olivier grid and legal fees. Correspondents include Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd, Denton Hall & Burgin (Solicitors), the National Theatre, The South Bank Theatre Board, Michael Kuhn of Polygram Leisure Limited, Davis Belfield and Everest, the Department of Education and Science, Simmons & Simmons (Solicitors of the South Bank Theatre Board, Mr P D J Scott Q C and Mr J A Dyson. Items include press cuttings about the Theatre scrapping some of the stage machinery, a legal document 'Points of Defence and Counter Claim', two copies of a legal document 'Request for Further and Better Particulars of the Points of Defence and Counterclaim', a graph showing fee calculations, a document 'Theatre Projects Consultants Limited/South Bank Theatre Board Briefing Notes for Michael Kuhn' which contains a summary of the fee dispute, a legal document 'Further and Better Particulars of the Points of Defence and Counterclaim Served Pursuant to a Request Dated 19th November 1980', a schedule or list of sub- and direct contracts and their value, a list of contractors and the technical installations they were responsible for as taken over by The National Theatre, a legal document 'Instructions to Council', a document 'Summary of Council's Opinion Re Arbitration Between TPC and SBTB', and a legal document 'Note of Advice given in Consultation why Mr Peter Scott QC of Council'. Original card folder disposed of. '904/1B 5 Aug 1980-July 82' was written on the front cover, and '904/1B-5 from Aug 1980' was written on the spine. |