DACY BUILDING SERVICES LTD v IDM PROPERTIES LLP

[2016] EWHC 3007 (TCC), Technology and Construction Court, Jefford J, 25 November 2016

Adjudication - Enforcement of adjudicator's decision - Defence that parties not in a contractual relationship - Identity of parties to the alleged oral contract

The claimant sought to enforce the decision of an adjudicator. The defendant resisted enforcement on the ground that the parties had not entered into a contractual relationship with the consequence that the adjudicator did not have jurisdiction to reach the decision which he had reached.