Construction Law Update: Irish Court Comments On Adjudication As It Enforces A Second Decision

As statutory adjudication becomes more widely used in Ireland, the High Court enforces a second adjudicator's decision and, in so doing, emphasises that entitlement to adjudication derives from legislation, not contract, and confirms the Court's willingness to benefit from the experience of the UK's Technology and Construction Court in this area of construction law.

We wrote previously about the first case in which the Irish High Court enforced an adjudicator's decision in our briefing on Gravity Construction v Total Highway Maintenance Ltd. The High Court has now ruled in support of another adjudicator's decision, in the case of Principal Construction Ltd v Beneavin Contractors Ltd [2020 No.199 MCA].