James Bowling

Adjudicator’s decisions under the Housing Grants, Construction & Regeneration Act 1996 (“HGCRA96”) are enforceable almost as of right.

A straw poll amongst adjudicators and practitioners in the adjudication field on the relationship between adjudication enforcement and arbitration clauses would likely result in an overwhelming majority answering that the two have nothing to do with each other; that the jurisdiction over adjudication enforcement is solely the province of the courts and arbitrators have no look-in.