Adjudication: stay of arbitration proceedings

In Northumbrian Water Ltd v Doosan Enpure Ltd and Another [2022] EWHC 2881 (TCC) O'Farrell J confirmed that the decision of an adjudicator in a construction dispute is binding on the parties and thus enforceable if there is no challenge to the decision on jurisdictional or natural justice grounds. The right of a party to challenge the substance of the decision in arbitration does not, therefore, justify a stay of enforcement proceedings under section 9 of the Arbitration Act 1996.

Northumbrian Water : the facts