Aha - here they come, the jurisdiction challenges. It must be about day three of the latest adjudication, and the responding party is telling the adjudicator (as usual) to shove off - politely, of course. "Go away, because... er, well, let me think..." Aha! Yes: "There is no crystallised dispute", or "there is more than one dispute", or a "previous adjudicator decided the dispute", or "there is a dispute but it's not a construction dispute", or, oh dear, "we have been ambushed", or, or, or... Those of us who have been in the game these (exactly) 20 years of the Construction Act just shrug. We expect it; we are used to it.
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