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It continues to be our experience and I am sure that of many reading this article that Contractors in the midst of pulling out all the stops to win a Contract and concentrating on the two features most coveted by Clients i.e. time and money, that the Contract document eventually signed up to is not given the scrutiny it should be. It is all too often lost in a drawer or cabinet and is generally brought back into the light of day as a reactive response to an issue.

It is widely accepted that the initial intention of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, (HGCRA 1996) was that adjudication would be a low cost quick fix method of resolving construction disputes.