BALDWINS INDUSTRIAL SERVICES PLC v BARR LIMITED
[2003] BLR 176
QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURT
Before HHJ Frances Kirkham
Adjudication - Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (“HGCRA”) - Contract for hire of mobile crane and driver - Section 104 “construction contract” - Whether hire of crane and driver falls within definition - Whether adjudicator had jurisdiction.
Stay of execution - Claimant in administration - Whether “special circumstances” - Stay defeats purpose of HGCRA - Whether stay should be ordered.