MDA Consulting held its Inaugural Collective Wisdom Lecture on 17 September 2014, with guest speaker Dr. Robert Gaitskell, QC (“Dr. Gaitskell”). Dr. Gaitskell overviewed the genesis of adjudication in the United Kingdom, its spread to many other Commonwealth jurisdictions and international adjudication practice with reference to contractual adjudication procedures prescribed in international standard form construction contracts, including the FIDIC 1999 (First Edition) and NEC3.