The Business Law Reports
[2020] Bus LR 917
Queen’s Bench Division
Meadowside Building Developments Ltd (in liquidation)
v
12–18 Hill Street Management Company Ltd
[2019] EWHC 2651 (TCC)
2019 Sept 25;Oct 10
Adam Constable QC sitting as a deputy High Court judge
Building— Contract— Adjudication— Enforcement— Insolvent party referring dispute to adjudication to determine net balance of sums under contract— Adjudicator dealing with entirety of mutual dealings between parties— Referring party seeking to enforce by summary judgment adjudicator’s award in its favour— Liquidators’ agents offering to guarantee referring party’s potential liability to responding party and its costs— Whether in principle adjudicator’s decision enforceable despite referring party’s insolvency— Effect of champertous funding agreement with liquidators’ agents—
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 (SI 2016/1024), r 14.25