Adjudication: the compulsory first port of call?

The Construction Act permits a party to a construction contract to start an adjudication at any time. But what if a party doesn't want to adjudicate a dispute, and instead commences court proceedings? Can those proceedings be stopped, to allow an adjudication to take place first? This issue arose in DGT v. Cubitt.

Cubitt engaged DGT to carry out cladding works. Unusually the subcontract contained a clause providing that ‘any dispute ... shall, in the first instance, be submitted to a... (491 more words)

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