Evidence is not admissible when it is irrelevant. Nor is evidence admissible when it is relevant but contains new allegations, and there is not enough time to answer them. In essence, these circumstances arose in the adjudication between Kier Regional, trading as Wallis, and City pound; General (Holborn). This goes on quite a lot. Here are the details. The contract price was pound;11.5m. Wallis' final account was pound;30m. The extension of time was 59 weeks. The prolongation claim was pound;1.4m and the contract administrator awarded pound;500,000. Wallis called for the adjudicator to referee the administrator's pound;500,000 certificate. Charles Ellis was appointed referee and, 28 days later, he said the contract administrator should have awarded pound;1.3m.
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