HT-2024-000423 - [2025] EWHC 942 (TCC)

Fecha: 16-Abr-2025

Adjudication enforcement proceedings

Adjudication enforcement proceedings

56.

The Claimant failed to pay any of the sums which the Adjudicator had decided were due.

57.

On 20 September 2024, the Defendant issued proceedings in the TCC to enforce the Decision.

58.

The Claimant filed a defence disputing the claim.

59.

In a skeleton argument filed on Sunday 8 December 2024, the day before the hearing, the Claimant accepted that the sum was due but sought a stay of execution and, in the alternative, to set off the Costs Order.

60.

At the hearing on 9 December 2024 (see the order of District Judge Baldwin):

(1)

The Defendant admitted the Claimant’s right to set off the Costs Order.

(2)

The Court granted summary judgment enforcing the Decision.

(3)

The Court refused the Claimant’s application for a stay of execution.

(4)

The Court ordered the Claimant to pay the net sum of £137,472.12 to the Defendant.

(5)

The Court ordered the Claimant to pay the Defendant’s costs of £22,871.20.

61.

In breach of the enforcement order, the Claimant has not paid any part of the sums it was ordered to pay to the Defendant.