PAY FIRST, ADJUDICATE LATER

摘要

Parties can now seek a valuation of the sum due at an interim stage and are not reliant on the payment notice regime - following an important Appeal Court ruling last week. Since February there has been much debate on whether "smash and grab" adjudications are now resiled to the history books and whether payment notice defaults are no longer a concern as employers can just counter-adjudicate on the value of the relevant application. On 7 November the landmark judgment S&T(UK) Ltd vs Grove Developments Ltd was handed down, providing clarity to the payment dispute landscape.