Construction Law Quarterly

Welcome to the first edition of Construction Law Quarterly for 2017. We begin what promises to be an interesting year, the machinations of Brexit and a Trump presidency providing much of that interest, with three articles of direct relevance to practitioners. Adjudications, initially implemented as a swift method of resolving disputes to free-up cash flow, are becoming used to address increasingly complex cases. As more complicated issues are addressed, so the costs of conducting adjudications rise. Consequently, attempts by the parties to recover some of those costs have become a recent hot topic. Claire King examines the background to the...