Thursday, 20 November 2025
Chair
Juliana Jorissen, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons; Leading Construction & Infrastructure Litigation Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2024
Reviewing and Challenging Construction Adjudications
- Examine the review process for construction adjudications and explore the avenues for challenging determinations
- Clarify the scope of the adjudication process, including whether it extends beyond the issuance of a determination to cover enforcement
- Gain practical insights into when, how and on what grounds an adjudication can be reviewed or contested
Presented by Scott Ellis, Barrister, Chartered Arbitrator, Mediator, Francis Burt Chambers; Leading Construction Law Barrister, Doyle’s Guide 2025; Senior Sessional Member of the State Administrative Tribunal
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on WA legislation
Presenters
Juliana Jorissen, Partner, King & Wood MallesonsJuliana is an experienced litigator specialising in the area of construction litigation and commercial dispute resolution. She is known for her international multi-party insight, collaborative approach and commercial thinking, assisting clients in the development of issues identification and claims management strategies and advising on complex contractual and non-contractual disputes. Juliana has acted on various disputes relating to oil and gas projects, major commercial and residential developments, rail and port operations, and electricity and gas disputes. While experienced in every aspect of dispute resolution, she specialises in achieving commercially sensible outcomes via alternative dispute resolution methods including adjudication, mediation and arbitration. She regularly advises on some of the most commercially strategic, high-value and complex disputes in the construction sector.
Scott Ellis, Barrister, Chartered Arbitrator, Mediator, Francis Burt Chambers
Scott Ellis practices as an arbitrator, adjudicator, mediator and barrister from Francis Burt Chambers. Prior to joining the Bar, he was a partner of Freehills for a number of years. He has dealt with more than 400 disputes as an arbitrator, mediator, expert determiner and as a third party neutral. He is a Fellow of ACICA and Resolution Institute. He is a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is accredited to NMAS standards as a mediator. He is registered as an adjudicator under the Construction Contracts (Former Provisions) Act 2004 (still) and as a Grade 2 Adjudicator and a Review Adjudicator under the Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Act, 2021. He is also a NSW adjudicator. He is a Senior Sessional Member of the State Administrative Tribunal and a member of the National Sports Tribunal. He is the Acting Corruption and Crime Commissioner. He has also appeared as counsel in Supreme Court proceedings for judicial review of adjudicator’s decisions. In 2022 he was listed by Doyle’s Guide as a Leading WA Mediator, and a Leading Barrister in Construction and Infrastructure and in Arbitration.
