Construction analysis: The Technology and Construction Court (TCC) rejected a set of jurisdictional and natural justice challenges to an adjudicator's decision, emphasising that such challenges will succeed in only the plainest cases. Among other points, the court found that where a matter relevant to the adjudicator's jurisdiction necessarily 'overlapped' with the adjudicator's decision on the substantive issues, that matter could not be considered at the enforcement stage.
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