Notice of adjudication – how important is that?
Included in a number of jurisdictional challenges to an adjudication award was a claim that the notice of adjudication was defective, in not complying with the applicable rules. Paragraph 1(3) of the Scheme for Construction Contracts (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (which applied in this case) says that the notice of adjudication "shall set out briefly" four matters but the contractor said that the notice failed adequately to set out three of those matters, namely, the nature and a brief description of the dispute, details of where and when the dispute arose and the nature of the redress sought.
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