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                                                Application for payment held to be invalid
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    In RBG Plastering Ltd v Tawe Drylining and Plastering Ltd [2020] EWHC 3028 (TCC) HH Judge Jarman QC, sitting as a judge of the High Court, held that the claimant was entitled to a declaration that the defendant’s application for payment was invalid..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        31 December 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                            Vol 38 No 01 - 31 December 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                                Arbitrations, multiple references and apparent bias
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    In Halliburton Co v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd [2020] UKSC 48 the Supreme Court, in a wide-ranging judgment, dismissed an appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeal (on which see our July 2018 issue, pp 10–12) and held that the fair-minded and..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        31 December 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Appeared in issue: 
                                                    
                                                            Vol 38 No 01 - 31 December 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                                The meaning of “default”
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    In ABC Electrification Ltd v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 1645, the Court of Appeal held that the word “default” meant any failure by the contractor to comply with its obligations under the contract (and in so concluding dismissed..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        31 December 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Appeared in issue: 
                                                    
                                                            Vol 38 No 01 - 31 December 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                                Failure to consider a defence a breach of natural justice
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    In Global Switch Estates 1 Ltd v Sudlows Ltd [2020] EWHC 3314 (TCC) O’Farrell J held that the claimant was not entitled to enforce the decision of an adjudicator because the adjudicator had breached the principles of natural justice in that he had..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        31 December 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Appeared in issue: 
                                                    
                                                            Vol 38 No 01 - 31 December 2020