Adjudication: how did it all get so complicated?

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Tony Bingham looks at an ordinary adjudication of mind-bending complexity and wonders how this haas become the new norm

TTake a gander at this very recent judgment. It is all about challenging the result in an adjudication. It is between Iluminesia Ltd (known as Alterego Facades) and RFL Facades Ltd. It’s ordinary – these days. Ordinary in its complexity. It needed, and it got, an adjudicator who is hugely experienced and knows his stuff. It needed, and it got, representatives who were hugely experienced and know their stuff. It needed, and it got, a judge in the Newcastle Technology and Construction Court who knows his adjudication stuff. The ordinariness of adjudication nowadays is its complexity. It’s somewhat hifalutin, ever so sophisticated, and not a place for amateurs… or so it seems.

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