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Ian Drummond of Burness & Co, Edinburgh comments in more detail on a recent Court of Session Decision on Adjudicators Reasons
CONSTRUCTION ADJUDICATION
THE GIVING OF REASONS BY ADJUDICATORS
Statutory Adjudication – A Practical Guide by Derek Simmonds C Eng, BSc, FICE, FCIArb, FCMI, FConsE, published by Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 1-4051-1085-6, 266 pages including Appendices.
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.
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.
The Midlands region held a successful re-launch meeting on 25 June at the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The meeting was attended by about 50 people.
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.
A sub-contractor's recovery of acceleration costs has added to the options open to contractors in delay. The court's judgment in Motherwell Bridge Construction Limited –v- Micafil (November 2002, TCC) was issued without much comment, but heralds an important new approach by the courts.
Following the last Newsletter members were invited to submit propositions for consideration. JohnSims started the ball rolling :
“Subject: A proposition for the newsletter
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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.
John Redmond ( a great contributor to the Newsletter) of Osborne Clark, Solicitors,
responded to the Editors views “that Arbitration can learn much from Adjudication”.
“ARBICATION?
Problems with Adjudication in the UK
The view of the RICS on the question of change to the legislation governing construction adjudication is that it is largely unnecessary and unlikely.