Construction Adjudication Support
Construction Adjudication: Position, Evidence and Strategy
Construction adjudication support for referring and responding parties. Assess the strength of your position, organise your evidence, and prepare your referral or response strategy against the adjudication timetable.
Across the full adjudication lifecycle
Construction Adjudication Strategy & Preparation
Pre-adjudication support for construction contract disputes where a payment, valuation, final account, delay or entitlement issue may need to be referred, but the dispute, remedy, evidence and adjudication route need to be defined and reviewed before a Notice of Adjudication is served.
What you receive
Adjudication Strategy and Referral Preparation
You receive support to define the dispute, develop the referral strategy and prepare the commercial, contractual and evidential position before a Notice of Adjudication is served.
Preparation support includes:
- The dispute to be referred
- The remedy being sought
- The adjudication route
- The contractual and commercial position
- Jurisdiction or procedural risks
- Notice and crystallisation issues
- The strengths supporting the position
- The risks affecting recovery or defence
- The supporting records available
- The further records or substantiation required
- The referral structure
- The anticipated timetable and preparation requirements
- Settlement or escalation options
- Whether adjudication is justified
Payment & Final Account Adjudications
Support with adjudications involving unpaid applications, reduced payments, withheld retention, disputed deductions, valuation issues and final account balances.
What you receive
Payment and Final Account Adjudication Support
You receive party representative support for payment recovery, final account disputes, retention recovery and valuation issues.
Representative support includes:
- The payment or final account position
- The sums being pursued or disputed
- The notified sum or valuation basis
- The payment notice or pay less notice position
- The basis for withholding or reduction
- The retention release position
- The deductions, set-offs or contra-charges
- The contractual and commercial entitlement position
- The supporting records available
- The further records or substantiation required
- The referral or response structure
- The timetable and submission requirements
- Settlement or negotiation options
- The practical route to recovery or defence
Referring & Responding Party Support
Party representative support for referring or responding parties during adjudication, including strategy, submissions, evidence, timetable management and commercial negotiation support.
What you receive
Referring and Responding Party Representation
You receive practical party representative support to prepare, present or respond to the adjudication case within the required timetable.
Representative support includes:
- Notice of Adjudication support
- Referral or Response preparation
- Reply, Rejoinder or further submission support
- Timetable and submission management
- Dispute and remedy definition
- Jurisdiction and procedural issues
- Entitlement, valuation or delay issues
- Evidence and chronology preparation
- Supporting records review
- Opposing case analysis
- Commercial negotiation support
- Settlement strategy during the adjudication
- Adjudicator communications support
- Final decision and next-step review
Facing a Construction Dispute?
Talk through your construction dispute, the adjudication process, and your commercial objectives before you refer or respond.