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06 August 2005

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Issue 62

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February 2026

Smash and Grab (AKA Payment Notice Dispute) Adjudications: Where are we now?

This issue provides a comprehensive guide to “smash and grab” adjudications, with an overview of the basics that give rise to the right to require payment of the notified sum, consider recent case law from the courts, and provide practical tips to help employers and contractors avoid being on the receiving end of a smash and grab adjudication.

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July 2015’s Insight examines three important TCC decisions relating to the approach to payment and adjudication.

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What can you do if a Responding Party in an arbitration refuses to pay its share of the Advance on Costs?

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.

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