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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
The panellists to this session were John Riches, an experienced Arbitrator and Adjudicator and co-author of the text Construction Adjudication, Chris Hough, solicitor and partner in the law firm Fenwick Elliott, and David Blake, current Chairman of the North East branch of the Chartered Institute
Following the Adjudication Conference 20th November, 2002 the following have agreed, by response to Richard Bayfield’s email seeking volunteers, to form the Constitution Group.
SIMON TOLSON of Fenwick Elliott gets a grilling from the Editor !!
LB: You had another successful Fenwick Elliot Adjudication Review in November, what is your perception now of the market place as far as adjudication is concerned?
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.
I am pleased to issue the September Newsletter after a bit of a delay as we waited to finalise the proposed Conference, some details of which are included later. This month we again have some excellent contributions which cover a wide range of adjudication issues.
John Redmond of Osbourne Clark kindly submitted this article on the recently issued Guidance for Adjudicators.
Guidance for Adjudicators
Members should be aware of the recent CIC publication “CIC Adjudication The First Forty Months “ available from the CIC 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7 BT.