Recovery of your adjudication legal costs under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998? Think again!

Following the decision of the TCC last month in Enviroflow Management Ltd v Redhill Works (Nottingham) Ltd [2017] (unreported), successful referring parties to adjudications may no longer be able to take advantage of the implied terms in the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Interest Act 1998 to seek to recover their legal costs.

In this article Ian Masser, Sophie-Rose Bowen and Jade Harvey highlights some of the key points in the decision and comment on its possible implications for the recovery of legal costs of adjudication.