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Len Bunton explains the Conflict Avoidance Protocol and its development in England and Ireland.

Len Bunton, one of the Society’s most prolific mentors, answers some questions about his experience providing adjudication mentoring. Next issue, we will be hearing from Sue Kim, one of his mentees, about her experience of mentoring.

An introduction to the conflict avoidance process scheme.

Apologies to members for the delay in producing the first Newsletter of 2005. We feature three interesting articles in this issue and as always we have Nick Gould’s Case Law Update.

Dear Members, not too much to report on the Adjudication front but we again have some interesting contributions to consider and in particular some thoughts from Tony Bingham. Chairman Guy Cottam refers to the latest news on the Latham Review and members will find
Dear Members, a shorter than usual Newsletter this Summer but again some interesting news and an update on case from Nick Gould. Regional activities are good and there is no shortage of interest in exploring and debating, differing issues in Adjudication.
It is with great sorrow that we have to inform members that Carol Chapman, wife of Peter Chapman, our founder, died suddenly on 8th February. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to Peter and his family.

 Interview Corner

On the spot – John Riches

 

We are pleased to send you the last Newsletter of 2003. We again have some int [and quarterly thereafter] and we should have a comprehensive case summary then, but cases are also on the website as well as articles etc. Grateful thanks to our many contributors during the years.

The Editor Posed the following questions to members b:
“What do you think was the most significant development in Adjudication during 2003?” [please not England winning the World Cup, anonymous Scotsman ]

“What is the most significant change you would like to see in 2004 ?”

The Editor interviews the construction team of DLA in their superb new Edinburgh office, on a number of issues. Many thanks to Fenella Mason and her team in the Scottish practice of DLA's Construction and Engineering Group for their assistance.

We are pleased to send you the August 2003 Newsletter with full details of the Second Annual Conference and details of the proposed constitution etc. We again have some interesting thoughts on the adjudication process and also some very interesting case produced by Nick Gould. Have you looked at our website which is crammed with very useful articles and commentaries.

The Editor interviews the construction team of DLA in their superb new Edinburgh office, on a number of issues. Many thanks to Fenella Mason and her team in the Scottish practice of DLA's Construction and Engineering Group for their assistance.

Apologies to all our readers for the long delay in issuing further Newsletters.

All rumours of the Editor going walkabout in Australia are unfounded – simply a long involvement in a dispute had meant my attention was fully occupied elsewhere for a number of months.

This month sees another bumper issue mainly due to the comprehensive Case Law Corner by Nick Gould. Many thanks to all of our contributors, and this includes an interesting debate on a proposition from John Sims. Readers are invited to comment on any aspect of the Newsletter.

This issue sees the first of our quarterly Society Newsletters. Further issues will appear in April, July and October. Again we are grateful, in this issue, to a number of contributors as we try to cover new ground, and issues, emerging from the world of dispute resolution.

SIMON TOLSON of Fenwick Elliott gets a grilling from the Editor !!

LB: You had another successful Fenwick Elliot Adjudication Review in November, what is your perception now of the market place as far as adjudication is concerned?

The question put to members by the Editor by e mail) was :

I am pleased to issue the September Newsletter after a bit of a delay as we waited to finalise the proposed Conference, some details of which are included later. This month we again have some excellent contributions which cover a wide range of adjudication issues.

Members should be aware of the recent CIC publication “CIC Adjudication The First Forty Months “ available from the CIC 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7 BT.