Notes from the practice
Practical writing on statutory adjudication, delay claims and construction contracts — for the people who make decisions under the clock.
The 100-day clock: how a CIPAA adjudication actually runs
From payment claim to decision, statutory adjudication runs on a fixed set of working-day deadlines. Miss one and you can lose a good claim on procedure. Here is the timeline, step by step.
Serve the payment claim right, or lose the adjudication before it starts
The payment claim is the foundation of every adjudication. Get its contents, its service and its timing right, and half the battle is won before the adjudicator is even appointed.
LAD after Cubic Electronics: what employers and contractors get wrong
Liquidated ascertained damages are not the automatic deduction many employers assume, nor the unenforceable penalty many contractors hope for. The Federal Court’s Cubic Electronics decision recalibrated both positions.
Extension of time and concurrent delay on Malaysian projects
When an employer-risk delay and a contractor-risk delay bite at the same time, who gets the extension of time — and who pays for it? Concurrent delay remains one of the least settled areas of construction law.
A payment claim just landed? The clock has already started.
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