A claim or adjudication has been started against me

Adjudication is fast on purpose: a referral, the document that starts one, arrives and the timetable gives you days, not months, to respond. The other side may be running a notice-based smash and grab, a claim won on missing payment paperwork rather than the value of the work, and those are decided on documents, not merits. Ignoring it, or giving a thin answer, does not slow anything down. The decision arrives anyway, and it binds until it is overturned.

But the speed cuts both ways. Referrals built in a hurry make mistakes: the wrong dispute referred, defective notices relied on, valuations that fall apart when properly checked. A disciplined response, served in time, puts every one of those weaknesses in front of the adjudicator, and even where the claim is partly good, the response frames how much of it should survive.