There is a tricky technical point in this adjudication case. The lawyers will be tickled pink; the constructors will raise an eyebrow. Cain Electrical contracted with Pennine Control Systems to carry out cable works on the Humber Bridge; a modest job worth £57K. They fell out about payment or rather non-payment of two invoices and Cain called for an adjudicator. Pennine got excited when Cain claimed in its paperwork to the adjudicator that there were one or two oral agreements in the contract not recorded in the written purchase order. It was a sort of gotcha, over and out move because Pennine then told the adjudicator that he should leave the pitch.
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