AD HOC Adjudication

Abstract

In addition to statutory adjudication under the 1996 Act, and contractual adjudication pursuant to the terms of the contract in question, there is a third way in which parties to a contract can agree, or be deemed to have agreed, to submit their dispute to adjudication. The authorities refer to this as ‘ad hoc adjudication’, a process whereby the parties agree to confer jurisdiction on an adjudicator to decide the particular dispute that has arisen between them. Because this is a matter entirely for the agreement of the parties, such an adjudication may arise under contracts other than construction contracts, or under contracts for the provision of work and services that would otherwise be excluded by the provisions of the 1996 Act.