There is no one answer to many of the questions which I am asked in my professional life. The question which Len has asked me – should adjudicators give reasons for their decisions – is no exception.
The provision of reasons by an adjudicator has a number of disadvantages:
• it adds to the expense of the process. Indeed, an adjudicator needs to take care, in an adjudication under the Scheme, to comply with his statutory obligation to avoid "unnecessary expense"