Greater clarity as to what happens when a referral or adjudicator's decision is late has highlighted inequalities between adjudications under different rules and has come at a price by invalidating some leading adjudication rules.

Adjudication timetables often slip because:

The parties are slow agreeing whom to appoint as adjudicator, or the adjudicator nominating body is slow in appointing thereby delaying the referral of the dispute.

The adjudicator is late in communicating his decision because he first wants to be paid. By adjudication's very nature, adjudicators have only a short time to write their decisions.

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