The WLR Daily case summaries
[2017] WLR (D) 411
Queen’s Bench Division
Mailbox (Birmingham) Ltd v Galliford Try Building Ltd (formerly known as Galliford Try Construction Ltd)
[2017] EWHC 1405 (TCC)
2017 May 22; June 21
Coulson J
Building— Contract— Adjudication— Contractor putting in limited extension of time submission in defence to claim in adjudication for liquidated damages for delay and seeking to hold over full defence for subsequent adjudication— Adjudicator issuing award in employer’s favour based on consideration of limited defence— Contractor commencing second adjudication and seeking to rely on full extension of time submission in support of claim for unlawful termination— Whether first adjudication decision final and binding with respect to liquidated damages and extensions of time— Whether contractor prevented from commencing second adjudication— Whether adjudicator in second adjudication bound to decide claim for unlawful termination based on determinations as to time and delay in first adjudication