Adjudicate

Adjudication, or to adjudicate, is the process of involving a third party to consider the claims of both sides of a legal argument. The independent adjudicator will then make a decision based on information from both sides. These decisions are usually upheld and binding unless they are later overturned through further litigation.
In most cases, due to an adjudicator’s impartiality, the final decision is upheld and accepted by the original parties. In the UK, the right to adjudication has been written into law as a statutory right since 1996. Ordinarily, the adjudication process is swift. Under statutory regulations, the assigned adjudicator has a limit of 28 days to provide their final decision.
Adjudication hearings are often very similar to arbitration hearing processes. In most cases, adjudicators are involved with nonviolent infractions, or they relate to disagreements regarding money. They are often required when both parties have attempted and failed to resolve their issues through the courts. Therefore they need a third-party intervention.