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Security of Payment in Hong Kong - Learning from the UK Adjudication Experience

Thu 25 Nov

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Webinar by Zoom

Followed with the Asian and Australian experience sharing in mid-September, The Hong Kong Institute of Construction Adjudicators and The Lighthouse Club Young Member Group invite you to an evening webinar exploring security of payment regimes in the United Kingdom.

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Security of Payment in Hong Kong - Learning from the UK Adjudication Experience
Security of Payment in Hong Kong - Learning from the UK Adjudication Experience

Time & Location

25 Nov 2021, 18:30 – 19:30 GMT+8

Webinar by Zoom

About The Event

In the UK every party to a construction contract (save for certain identified exceptions) has a statutory right to give notice of its intention to commence an adjudication “at any time”, regardless of the size or nature of the dispute. Once the dispute has been referred to adjudication the adjudicator has just 28 days in which to reach a decision that is temporarily binding upon the parties.

Statutory adjudication was introduced in the UK with effect from May 1998. In the period since, the Technology and Construction Court (the specialist part of the English High Court concerned with construction disputes) has developed a number of legal principles governing the enforcement and validity of adjudication decisions and related topics via a mass of reported decisions.

The webinar will identify the purpose of adjudication and its relationship with payment obligations. It will consider the principal jurisdictional challenges and how to avoid them…

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Hong Kong Institute of Construction Adjudicators (HKICAdj) is a limited company by guarantee registered in Hong Kong. It is a non-profit making organisation which aims at promoting adjudication in Hong Kong.

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