Our Articles
The High Court has refused to enforce an adjudicator's "smash and grab" decision ordering payment solely because the employer did not serve a payment claim response notice, holding that the Construction Contracts Act 2013 does not provide for a default direction to pay in those circumstances.
In the recent High Court case [2025] IEHC 139, Tenderbids Ltd t/a Bastion v. Electrical Waste Management Ltd, the court addressed a crucial procedural issue under Ireland's Construction Contracts Act 2013: whether a notice of intention to refer a payment dispute to adjudication, delivered by email instead of the contractually agreed method of...