J Varney & Sons Waste Management Ltd v Hertfordshire County Council

Even relatively simple construction projects regularly suffer a whole host of delays to activities.

Failure by a party to pay its share of an advance on arbitration costs may amount to a breach of the arbitration agreement, but it will not necessarily be repudiatory. Where the applicable arbitral rules provide mechanisms to allow the arbitration to proceed, non‑payment alone is unlikely to render the arbitration agreement inoperative.