‘Construction disputes, as indeed is the case with other types of disputes, can have a heavy financial cost for both sides. ‘Victory’ can in defined circumstances take on a pyrrhic taste if the costs of the proceedings don’t go to the winning party. The March 2025 decision in Assensus is part of a sequence of important cases dealing with the issue of how costs are, or may be, treated when there has been a refusal to mediate.’
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