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https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Pay_now_argue_later Pay now argue later - Revision history 2026-05-16T19:03:59Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.17.4 https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Pay_now_argue_later&diff=182100&oldid=prev Designing Buildings at 08:53, 15 November 2020 2020-11-15T08:53:06Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 08:53, 15 November 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 34:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 34:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* The Scheme for Construction Contracts.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* The Scheme for Construction Contracts.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Property_law]] [[Category:Contracts_/_payment]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Category:DCN_Commentary]] [[Category:DCN_Definition]] [[Category:DCN_Guidance]] </ins>[[Category:Property_law]] [[Category:Contracts_/_payment]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Designing Buildings https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Pay_now_argue_later&diff=142712&oldid=prev Editor at 17:43, 3 September 2019 2019-09-03T17:43:31Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 17:43, 3 September 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 17:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 17:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It was written by --[[User:Robert_Fenwick_Elliott|Robert Fenwick Elliott.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It was written by --[[User:Robert_Fenwick_Elliott|Robert Fenwick Elliott.]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">= Find out more =</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki =</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==</del>= Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==</del>=</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Adjudication.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Adjudication.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 32:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 30:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Mediation.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Mediation.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Pendulum arbitration</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Pendulum arbitration</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Seven day letter</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* The Scheme for Construction Contracts.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* The Scheme for Construction Contracts.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Property_law]] [[Category:Contracts_/_payment]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Property_law]] [[Category:Contracts_/_payment]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Editor https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Pay_now_argue_later&diff=97844&oldid=prev Designing Buildings at 13:50, 7 February 2018 2018-02-07T13:50:41Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 13:50, 7 February 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Construction Law Barrister Robert Fenwick Elliott coined the expression ‘Pay now, argue later’ to describe the adjudication process in early 1996 during discussions with <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://myparliament.info/Member/1657 </del>Lord Howie of Troon<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>in the tea room at the House of Lords. He describes below how this came about.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Construction Law Barrister Robert Fenwick Elliott coined the expression ‘Pay now, argue later’ to describe the adjudication process in early 1996 during discussions with Lord Howie of Troon in the tea room at the House of Lords. He describes below how this came about.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td></tr> </table>

Designing Buildings https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Pay_now_argue_later&diff=44221&oldid=prev Designing Buildings at 10:46, 29 January 2016 2016-01-29T10:46:54Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 10:46, 29 January 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Construction Law Barrister Robert Fenwick Elliott coined the expression ‘Pay now, argue later’ to describe the adjudication process in early 1996 during discussions with [http://myparliament.info/Member/1657 Lord Howie of Troon] in the tea room at the House of Lords.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Construction Law Barrister Robert Fenwick Elliott coined the expression ‘Pay now, argue later’ to describe the adjudication process in early 1996 during discussions with [http://myparliament.info/Member/1657 Lord Howie of Troon] in the tea room at the House of Lords<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. He describes below how this came about</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 10:45, 29 January 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Lord Howie [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199596/ldhansrd/vo960328/text/60328-29.htm mentioned the formulation in debate on 28th March 1996], as did [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199596/ldhansrd/vo960422/text/60422-28.htm Lord Akner on 22nd April 1996].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Lord Howie [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199596/ldhansrd/vo960328/text/60328-29.htm mentioned the formulation in debate on 28th March 1996], as did [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199596/ldhansrd/vo960422/text/60422-28.htm Lord Akner on 22nd April 1996].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It was picked up by the courts in the UK in [http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/scot/cases/ScotCS/1999/264.html Homer Burgess Ltd v Chirex (Annan) Ltd [1999<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>ScotCS 264 (10 November 1999)] and then in Australia in [http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/nsw/NSWSC/2003/1140.html?stem=0&amp;synonyms=0&amp;query=%22pay%20now,%20argue%20later%20%22 Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd v Luikens and Anor [2003<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>NSWSC 1140 (4 December 2003).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It was picked up by the courts in the UK in [http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/scot/cases/ScotCS/1999/264.html Homer Burgess Ltd v Chirex (Annan) Ltd<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>[1999 ScotCS 264 (10 November 1999)] and then in Australia in [http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/nsw/NSWSC/2003/1140.html?stem=0&amp;synonyms=0&amp;query=%22pay%20now,%20argue%20later%20%22 Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd v Luikens and Anor<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>[2003 NSWSC 1140 (4 December 2003).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Since then it has been used many times to characterise the nature of the adjudication process.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Since then it has been used many times to characterise the nature of the adjudication process.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 08:21, 15 January 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This article originally appeared at [https://feconslaw.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/pay-now-argue-later/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">#more-796 </del>Pay now, Argue Later] 15/01/2016.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This article originally appeared at [https://feconslaw.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/pay-now-argue-later/ Pay now, Argue Later] 15/01/2016.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It was written by --[[User:Robert_Fenwick_Elliott|Robert Fenwick Elliott]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It was written by --[[User:Robert_Fenwick_Elliott|Robert Fenwick Elliott<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</ins>]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Find out more =</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Find out more =</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 08:19, 15 January 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This article originally appeared at [[User:Robert_Fenwick_Elliott|Robert Fenwick Elliott]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This article originally appeared at <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://feconslaw.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/pay-now-argue-later/#more-796 Pay now, Argue Later] 15/01/2016.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It was written by --</ins>[[User:Robert_Fenwick_Elliott|Robert Fenwick Elliott]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Find out more =</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Find out more =</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 08:18, 15 January 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This article originally appeared at [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">https</del>:<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">//feconslaw.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/pay-now-argue-later/#more-796 Pay now, Argue Later] 15/01/2016 by </del>Robert Fenwick Elliott.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This article originally appeared at [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[User</ins>:<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Robert_Fenwick_Elliott|</ins>Robert Fenwick Elliott<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Find out more =</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Find out more =</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 08:18, 15 January 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This article originally appeared <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">atat </del>[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[User</del>:<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Robert_Fenwick_Elliott|</del>Robert Fenwick Elliott<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This article originally appeared <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">at </ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">https</ins>:<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">//feconslaw.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/pay-now-argue-later/#more-796 Pay now, Argue Later] 15/01/2016 by </ins>Robert Fenwick Elliott.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Find out more =</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Find out more =</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 08:17, 15 January 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Lord Howie was a Scottish engineer, picking up the recommendation in Sir Michael Latham’s Report ‘Constructing the team’ to introduce an adjudication scheme into construction contracts, and very sensibly sought the input of [http://www.tecsa.org.uk/adjudication TeCSA] (Technology and Construction Solicitors’ Association) as to how this might best be done. I was advising him to stay clear of his initial idea of making the adjudicator’s decision final and binding, on the basis that if it was final and binding, it would be impossible to prevent the courts from placing all sorts of obstacles in the way of enforcement. It was a play on the old hire purchase slogan: <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">“Buy </del>now, pay <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">later”</del>. I said that if an adjudication loser was obliged to pay up, without prejudice to its right to then fight it out in the courts or arbitration to try to get it back, that would achieve the objective we were looking for, but minimising the risk of court interference. It would be rare, I predicted, that this right to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">“argue later” </del>would be used very much in practice. Happily, he agreed, and my prediction eventually proved good.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Lord Howie was a Scottish engineer, picking up the recommendation in Sir Michael Latham’s Report ‘Constructing the team’ to introduce an adjudication scheme into construction contracts, and very sensibly sought the input of [http://www.tecsa.org.uk/adjudication TeCSA] (Technology and Construction Solicitors’ Association) as to how this might best be done.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>I was advising him to stay clear of his initial idea of making the adjudicator’s decision final and binding, on the basis that if it was final and binding, it would be impossible to prevent the courts from placing all sorts of obstacles in the way of enforcement. It was a play on the old hire purchase slogan: <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'Buy </ins>now, pay <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">later'</ins>. I said that if an adjudication loser was obliged to pay up, without prejudice to its right to then fight it out in the courts or arbitration to try to get it back, that would achieve the objective we were looking for, but minimising the risk of court interference. It would be rare, I predicted, that this right to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'argue later' </ins>would be used very much in practice. Happily, he agreed, and my prediction eventually proved good.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Lord Howie [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199596/ldhansrd/vo960328/text/60328-29.htm mentioned the formulation in debate on 28th March 1996], as did [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199596/ldhansrd/vo960422/text/60422-28.htm Lord Akner on 22nd April 1996].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Lord Howie [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199596/ldhansrd/vo960328/text/60328-29.htm mentioned the formulation in debate on 28th March 1996], as did [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199596/ldhansrd/vo960422/text/60422-28.htm Lord Akner on 22nd April 1996].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It was picked up by the courts in the UK in [http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/scot/cases/ScotCS/1999/264.html Homer Burgess Ltd v Chirex (Annan) Ltd [1999] ScotCS 264 (10 November 1999)] and then in Australia in [http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/nsw/NSWSC/2003/1140.html?stem=0&amp;synonyms=0&amp;query=%22pay%20now,%20argue%20later%20%22 Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd v Luikens and Anor [2003] NSWSC 1140 (4 December 2003)<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It was picked up by the courts in the UK in [http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/scot/cases/ScotCS/1999/264.html Homer Burgess Ltd v Chirex (Annan) Ltd [1999] ScotCS 264 (10 November 1999)] and then in Australia in [http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/nsw/NSWSC/2003/1140.html?stem=0&amp;synonyms=0&amp;query=%22pay%20now,%20argue%20later%20%22 Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd v Luikens and Anor [2003] NSWSC 1140 (4 December 2003).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Since then it has been used many times to characterise the nature of the adjudication process.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Since then it has been used many times to characterise the nature of the adjudication process.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This article originally appeared <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">at </del>[[User:Robert_Fenwick_Elliott|Robert Fenwick Elliott]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This article originally appeared <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">atat </ins>[[User:Robert_Fenwick_Elliott|Robert Fenwick Elliott]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Find out more =</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Find out more =</div></td></tr> </table>

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