23 Jul 2020WRW CONSTRUCTION LTD v DATBLYGAU DAVIES DEVELOPMENTS LTD The adjudicator’s award in the adjudication brought by the employer seeking a valuation of the post termination account should be enforced by way of summary judgment despite the fact that the adjudicator did not have jurisdiction to award a monetary sum to the contractor as the responding party
15 Jul 2020KEW HOLDINGS LTD v DONALD INSALL ASSOCIATES LTD The proceedings in which the client sought to overturn the adjudicator’s award to the architect should be stayed pending payment by the client of the outstanding judgment sum enforcing the adjudicator’s award but should not be struck out despite the client’s unreasonable and oppressive behaviour
25 Jun 2020ENGIE FABRICOM (UK) LTD v MW HIGH TECH PROJECTS UK LTD The sub-contract works of the installation of the plant at the fluidised bed gasification facility did not constitute construction operations within the meaning of section 105(2)(c)(i) of the Construction Act due to the primary activity on the site being power generation.
17 Jun 2020BRESCO ELECTRICAL SERVICES LTD v MICHAEL J LONSDALE (ELECTRICAL) LTD The sub-contractor should not be granted an injunction to prevent the continuation of the adjudication begun by the sub-sub-contractor, a company in insolvent liquidation, where the sub-contractor had a separate cross claim
5 Jun 2020MW HIGH TECH PROJECTS UK LTD v BALFOUR BEATTY KILPATRICK LTD The contractor was wrong to contend that a dispute had not arisen by the time the sub-contractor referred its claim for an extension of time to adjudication despite it having served a delay report on the contractor eight days before the referral containing substantial new particulars of its claim
27 May 2020PLATFORM INTERIOR SOLUTIONS LTD v ISG CONSTRUCTION LTD The claimant should recover the cost of engaging a claims consultant which assisted it in the successful enforcement proceedings on the basis that what it did was work which would otherwise have been carried out by solicitors
20 May 2020Dispute ResolutionA Brave New World – Video Mediation As the UK begins its slow journey back to work and becomes accustomed to living and working in a Covid-19 present world, it is no surprise that there has been a surge in disputes and companies looking for restructuring advice.
7 May 2020ISG CONSTRUCTION LTD v PLATFORM INTERIOR SOLUTIONS LTD No declarations should be made that the adjudicator’s decision was wrong when the grounds for them were not those upon which such declarations could properly be made
4 May 2020J & B HOPKINS LTD v TRANT ENGINEERING LTD The adjudicator’s award of the sum applied for by the sub-contractor in interim payment application 26 on the sole ground that the contractor’s purported payment and/or pay less notices were invalid should be enforced by way of summary judgment.
1 May 2020BROSELEY LONDON LTD v PRIME ASSET MANAGEMENT LTD An indemnity costs order should not be made against the employer in respect of its unsuccessful opposition to the contractor’s summary judgment application and its unsuccessful application for execution of that judgment to be stayed
29 Apr 2020J TOMLINSON LTD v BALFOUR BEATTY GROUP LTD The adjudicator’s award to the sub-contractor of the sum in its interim payment application on the ground that the contractor failed to serve any payment or pay less notice should be enforced without determining the contractor’s contention that the application was invalid
21 Apr 2020PLATFORM INTERIOR SOLUTIONS LTD v ISG CONSTRUCTION LTD The payment by the contractor of the fees requested by the adjudicator did not mean that it was electing to treat the adjudicator's decision as valid so that it had not waived its right to challenge the enforcement of the adjudicator’s decision
