Alternative Dispute Resolution

In this blog, Claire King reviews the ICE’s recently published Payment Notice Dispute Model Adjudication Procedure, which deals specifically with smash and grab adjudications. She examines the Procedure in closer detail and reviews some of its key features, most notably its capped Adjudicator fees.

The NEC’s new Conflict Avoidance Clauses, for use with the NEC4 ECC form, were announced earlier this year and are intended to prevent the escalation of “disagreements” into “disputes”. In this blog, Claire King reviews how they are meant to operate in the context of contracts that are already subject to statutory adjudication and examines the extent to which parties should be adding them to their dispute resolution toolkit.

In this blog post, Adele Parsons discusses the recent successful adjudication enforcement proceedings in the Technology & Construction Court. In his judgment, Mr Adrian Williamson KC, sitting as a High Court deputy judge, determined that the adjudicator had exceeded his jurisdiction in applying the Slip Rule.