Mailbox (Birmingham) Ltd v Galliford Try Building Ltd (formerly known as Galliford Try Construction Ltd)

Subject Matter

BUILDING — Contract — Adjudication — Employer bringing adjudication claim against contractor for liquidated damages for delay — Contractor putting in limited extension of time submission in defence — 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 — Facts and matters available to contractor in second adjudication

[2017] EWHC 1405 (TCC); [2017] Bus LR 2103; [2017] WLR (D) 411, QBD