Those of you who are fans of the Fast Show will remember Jesse, the character who came out of the loo or a barn and announced what he ‘had mostly been doing that week’. He may well have been deluded when he announced he had been living on a diet of rubber tyres but at least he knew what was going on in ‘Jesse world’.
John Riches
Frying tonight is a regular occurrence in our village. It is part of village life. The local chippy is open about as often as the days when a van used to come round delivering the fish and chips.
Introduction
It is a fact that Adjudication has obtained a much wider popularity than was ever thought possible or probable. It may be that Adjudication is being used in areas where it was never intended to be used.1. The fact is that Adjudication has had a wide press some of it good, some of it bad. There are lawyers in the construction press who have been very supportive of Adjudication and equally those who have been very negative.
There is no correct format or style for an Adjudicator’s Decision; it is all a matter of personal choice for the Adjudicator. There are some basic principles that ought to be followed.
The Decision ought to look like a ‘professional piece of work’. There is nothing worse for recipients than to look at a document which appears to have little to show that it has been prepared with a degree of care. If there are sufficient pages it ought to be ring-bound (it is common practice to send decisions by email and usually at the last minute.
Presentation by John Riches to the London Branch of the Adjudication Society. A PowerPoint presentation, in PDF format
PowerPoint slides from a talk by John Riches to the Society in London on September 9 2004