Barry Hembling, in a paper given at the 15th Fenwick Elliott Construction Law Update Seminar held at Simpsons in the Strand, London, reviews the key adjudication issues that have arisen over the past 12 months. He looks at whether jurisdictional challenges are becoming more difficult, discusses whether it is possible to sever different strands of an adjudicator’s decision, reviews challenges to decisions on the grounds of the adjudicator’s failure to consider evidence and concludes by asking whether the grounds available to unsuccessful parties to challenge an adjudicator’s decision are narrowing.
Victoria Russell provided a case law update paper and talk to the members of the South East branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators discussing the most recent decisions relating to adjudication enforcement and arbitration.