The construction team is regularly engaged in adjudication work, both for claiming parties and those responding.
This procedure has produced a complex area of law unique to the construction environment. The need for those involved to be mindful of the potential pitfalls in adjudication procedures has never been greater.
The time pressures involved in adjudications require a close working relationship with clients. This is something Hill Dickinson is always seeking to achieve by understanding clients’ businesses. This understanding provides the best start to assessing the issues that can be argued in adjudication. We have found that early involvement in such disputes leads to the best preparation.
The team’s experience is highlighted in some of the adjudication-related cases members have been involved in. These include:
- R J T Consulting Engineers -v- D M Engineering: Concerning the requirements for establishing whether or not an ‘agreement in writing’ existed for the purposes of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996
- Nordot -v- Siemens Plc: Concerning the jurisdiction of an adjudicator.
- David McLean –v- The Albany Building: The successful recovery of £2 million of liquidated damages in the face of several challenges to the adjudicator’s decision
David Chinn is
a TeCSA panel adjudicator.
Key contacts
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 151 600 8789
- david.chinn@hilldickinson.com
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 161 817 7221
- michael.woolley@hilldickinson.com
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With excellent coverage in Manchester and Liverpool,
particularly following the absorption of Halliwells’ Liverpool
team, Hill Dickinson LLP has ‘first-rate’ expertise in contentious
and non-contentious matters. Team head Michael Woolley provides
‘in-depth analysis and practical solutions’, and is advising Peel
Holdings in relation to infrastructure for a waste-to-energy power
facility.
Based
in Manchester and Liverpool, the team has a good local standing and
clients rate highly the quality of advice they get. It recently
advised Chester Zoo on a range of construction matters in relation
to its forthcoming redevelopment.
