Meadowside Building Developments Ltd v 12–18 Hill Street Management Company Ltd

Subject Matter

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

[2019] EWHC 2651 (TCC); [2020] Bus LR 917; 186 ConLR 148; [2019] WLR(D) 650, QBD