A sealed advance payment sits beside a locked contract-shaped gate while two professionals examine the conditions that would open it.

30 Sep 2026

The Contract Says What the Contract Says

In Westgreen Construction Ltd v Kiryukhina a dispute arose concerning £650,000 of advance payments. The court enforced the adjudicator’s decision and found that the contractual events triggering repayment had not occurred. Contract management cannot be used to rewrite a poor contractual bargain post award.

These kinds of issues are covered in our Contract Law and Drafting course 30th Nov – 1st December