April's issue of Insight provides practical advice to potential parties to mediation on (i) whether mediation is the appropriate forum for their dispute (ii) when to mediate (iii) how to navigate mediation costs and (iv) how to avoid the adverse costs awards that are being awarded with increasing frequency by the courts if parties unreasonably refuse to mediate.
Insight
Insight is our newsletter which provides practical information on topical issues affecting the building, engineering and energy sectors.
February 2026
February’s Insight provides a comprehensive guide to “smash and grab” adjudications (or “Payment Notice Dispute” adjudications). In this issue, Claire King and Laura Bowler outline 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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Previous issues
Click to download PDFMarch 2012
March's Insight covers practical tips for the responding party on how to best respond to adjudication proceedings, tactics and possible lines of defence that might be advanced in answer to the adjudication proceedings.
February 2012
February's Insight considers the steps that should be taken by the referring party at the outset of adjudication proceedings to ensure that the award is capable of enforcement.
January 2012
January's Insight provides information on Building Information Modelling (BIM) and the legal implications of its widespread use.
December 2011
December's Insight provides practical tips and advice when you are negotiating a bond or guarantee.
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