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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
April 2019
April Insight: Breaking Ground: Technology in Construction.
January 2019
January Insight: 2019: Are you prepared?
October 2018
October Insight: Alliancing: What does the NEC4 Alliance Contract have to offer?
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