The Business Law Reports
[2012] Bus LR 1013
Queen’s Bench Division
Systech International Ltd
v
PC Harrington Contractors Ltd
[2011] EWHC 2722 (TCC)
2011 Oct 13;
27
Akenhead J
Building— Contract— Adjudication— Adjudicator giving decision in construction dispute involving defendant— Court ruling adjudicator’s decision made in breach of natural justice and unenforceable— Adjudicator’s employer seeking payment of fees from defendant— Whether ruling of unenforceability representing total failure of consideration on part of adjudicator— Whether implied term that adjudicator would act according to rules of natural justice— Whether adjudicator’s fees payable—
Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (c 53), s 108