Monthly Archives: December 2011

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Well, Christmas is almost upon us and the television is already full of adverts of what we can look forward to watching over the festive period. As well as another heart-stopping instalment of Downton Abbey, I’m rather hoping A Christmas Carol will be on (the Muppets version obviously).

Rather like Ebenezer Scrooge in the Dickens classic, I can’t help thinking that some of the parties who end up in serial adjudications, which are followed by enforcements in the TCC, appeals, deals, etc, are haunted by the “Ghost of Adjudications Past”, or perhaps wish that they had been visited by the “Ghost of Adjudications Yet to Come” at the outset of their disputes, or even before they entered into the contract! One such set of parties might be those involved in PPL v Corinthian Nominees. Continue reading

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