Construction Focus: Enforceability of adjudicators’ decisions

John Starr | Property Law Journal | March 2015 #329
John Starr reviews two cases where adjudicators were alleged to have produced unenforceable decisions by reason of lack of jurisdiction or a failure to comply with the rules of natural justice ‘An adjudicator is entitled to make mistakes, whether of fact or law and even ones that are obvious and fundamental, without thereby rendering their …

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Construction Focus: You get what you pay for

Boyes Turner | Property Law Journal | December 2012 #301
The Court of Appeal has clarified that, if an adjudicator’s award is unenforceable, you may not have to pay their fee. John Starr investigates Adjudication is a ‘pay now, argue later’ regime under which the decision of an adjudicator is accorded ‘temporary finality’. It occasionally happens that an adjudicator’s decision is unenforceable, either because the …

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