"Adjudication and its development in the United Kingdom"

10/11 September 2003

Victoria Russell outlines the development of adjudication in the United Kingdom in a paper given to the International Construction Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She comments on whether adjudication is a success or failure looked at five years after its implementation by the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. Within her review, she highlights the important differences between adjudication and ADR, litigation and arbitration. The conference was organised by the Chartered Institute of Building in Malaysia and the Malaysian Association of Master Builders.