Sometimes the law acts quickly, and sometimes excruciatingly slowly. I was asked by my chambers in London, Keating Chambers, the other day to approve a summary of the decision of the Supreme Court in Northern Territory in Department of Construction and Infrastructure v Urban and Rural Contracting Pty Ltd [2012] NTSC 22. I was counsel for the contractor who had applied for and got an adjudicator’s determination in its favour, and I won on the day, and in the long run. In the meantime, the reported decision would suggest that I had lost.

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