Contract & Construction Consultants have enormous experience in running adjudications of all different types - from home-owner disputes for a few thousand pounds to Main Contract disputes worth millions. This is a very specialist area of law and you give yourself the best chance possible by engaging CCC for representation at the outset.

Since its introduction in 1998, adjudication for construction disputes has become by far the most common method of dispute resolution. It was originally envisaged as being a quick (28 day) process to improve cash flow during the project.

Adjudication is suitable for both interim and final account disputes, arguments about defects, extensions of time, and loss and expense. It can be used for all kinds of other complex legal arguments, but often these would be much better resolved by arbitration.

Since adjudication was first introduced, it has grown in complexity and cost. The longest running adjudication at CCC has been 2 years and the average is certainly much longer than the 28 days set down in the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996.

CCC are best placed to act for you in Adjudication because:

• We have been involved in statutory adjudication since it was introduced, and contractual adjudication before this. We have been involved in over 1,000 adjudications;

• Our consultants are highly trained;

• We have provided training in adjudication to other lawyers at major adjudication conferences;

• All of our principal consultants are members of the Adjudication Society;

• Our adjudication cases have been heard in the High Court and the Court of Appeal and are now cited as authority; and

• We have a number of very experienced consultants in this field and can react very quickly and cost effectively when prosecuting and defending adjudications. We are often able to take the first steps on the same day that we are instructed.