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[2009] BLR Plus 18

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURT)

Before Mr Justice Christopher Clarke

Adjudicator - Appointment - Whether adjudicator nominated before the relevant Notice of Intention to Refer was given was validly appointed. Adjudication - Certainty of the adjudicator's decision. Adjudication - Jurisdiction - Whether adjudicator decided the dispute that had been referred to him. Adjudication - Natural justice - Whether adjudicator gave sufficient opportunity to the parties to address the manner in which he intended to decide the dispute. Adjudication - Whether party precluded from proceeding with two adjudications at the same time. Adjudication - Whether a term implied in adjudication where two adjudications proceeding concurrently, that time limits in second adjudication abrogated whilst the authority of the first adjudicator to act is determined.