Adjudication is increasingly coming to resemble Mornington Crescent, the radio panel game where the rules, if they exist at all, are constantly changing. As the number of reported cases arising out of adjudicators’ decisions breaks the hundred barrier, the idea of a quick, cheap and efficient way of resolving disputes seems to have been lost.
Yet for all that adjudication remains extremely popular among most sectors of the construction industry. So, despite its flaws, adjudication appears to meet the needs of the construction industry.
