Part 8 applications - availability of declaratory relief during adjudication

Technology and Construction Court; before Mr Justice Edwards-Stuart; judgment delivered 1 June 2012

For Gear: Gaynor Chambers instructed by CJ Hough & Co Ltd

The facts

By an amended JCT Trade Contract entered into in August 2007, WW Gear Construction Limited (‘Gear’) engaged McGee Group Limited (‘McGee’) to carry out excavation and associated groundworks at a development in London SE1 for a contract sum of about £1.8 million.