Coming to Canada: Adjudication

On 1 October 2019, Ontario introduced the final phase of amendments intended to modernise its Construction Act (the “Bill”). Amongst these changes is the introduction of mandatory adjudication for payment related disputes.

Nathan Modell and James Hughes explain how the newly introduced adjudication procedure in Ontario compares to the procedure under the Construction Act in England, Wales and Scotland, and discuss how this could impact payment related disputes in the future.