Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012

7 cases · November 2024 to June 2026

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Key Issues & Sub-Topics

Sections 15, 16 & 28 — Setting aside adjudication decision — Excess of jurisdiction — Natural justice — Fraud — Interpretation of contractual provisions — Liquidated damages — Certificate of Non-Completion — Extension of Time — Stay pending arbitration — Clear errors — Financial standing of successful claimant — Enforcement of adjudication decision — Temporary finality — Court not to review merits of adjudicator's decision. 3 a question of considerable Doctrinal importance at the intersection of construction law and insolvency law: what is the effect, upon a winding-up order against a company which was founded upon an adjudication decision obtained by that company’s creditor, of a subsequent final determination by the court which conclusively reverses that adjudication decision on the merits — does the winding up order — by itself, and notwithstanding that the adjudication decision upon which it was founded has been extinguished under s. 13(c) of CIPAA by the final court determination — have the effect of transmuting the adjudication decision into a binding, permanent debt which survives that final determination, and which the CIPAA claimant may thereafter invoke as a mutual set-off under s. 526 of the Companies Act 2016 (“CA 2016”) against a winding-up petition subsequently presented by the aggrieved debtor company whose claims were vindicated in those very court proceedings? — the meaning of “finally decided by arbitration or the court” in s. 13(c), whether final determination means the decision must have been “decided, and no longer open to any form of challenge or appeal. 2 Core Jurisdiction — Jurisdiction — Construction contract in writing — Agreements alleged to be for banking purposes only — Alleged oral joint venture — Application to restrain adjudication proceedings — Injunction — Balance of convenience — Adequacy of damages — Clear cut absence of jurisdiction — Specific Relief Act 1950, s. 41. 1 two separate cases i.e. to enforce and to set aside the Adjudication Decision 1

Sections 15, 16 & 28 — Setting aside adjudication decision — Excess of jurisdiction — Natural justice — Fraud — Interpretation of contractual provisions — Liquidated damages — Certificate of Non-Completion — Extension of Time — Stay pending arbitration — Clear errors — Financial standing of successful claimant — Enforcement of adjudication decision — Temporary finality — Court not to review merits of adjudicator's decision. 3 cases

a question of considerable Doctrinal importance at the intersection of construction law and insolvency law: what is the effect, upon a winding-up order against a company which was founded upon an adjudication decision obtained by that company’s creditor, of a subsequent final determination by the court which conclusively reverses that adjudication decision on the merits — does the winding up order — by itself, and notwithstanding that the adjudication decision upon which it was founded has been extinguished under s. 13(c) of CIPAA by the final court determination — have the effect of transmuting the adjudication decision into a binding, permanent debt which survives that final determination, and which the CIPAA claimant may thereafter invoke as a mutual set-off under s. 526 of the Companies Act 2016 (“CA 2016”) against a winding-up petition subsequently presented by the aggrieved debtor company whose claims were vindicated in those very court proceedings? — the meaning of “finally decided by arbitration or the court” in s. 13(c), whether final determination means the decision must have been “decided, and no longer open to any form of challenge or appeal. 2 cases

Core Jurisdiction — Jurisdiction — Construction contract in writing — Agreements alleged to be for banking purposes only — Alleged oral joint venture — Application to restrain adjudication proceedings — Injunction — Balance of convenience — Adequacy of damages — Clear cut absence of jurisdiction — Specific Relief Act 1950, s. 41. 1 case

two separate cases i.e. to enforce and to set aside the Adjudication Decision 1 case

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Rules of Court 2012
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