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Sopal Decisions
Public adjudication decisions, searchable. For anyone preparing or answering a Queensland adjudication application.
Find how a point has been decided
Decision search is word-for-word search of every published Queensland adjudication decision Sopal holds, 7,601 of them. Type the words an adjudicator would have used, joined with AND, OR, NOT and w/N, and read the passages that match.
"payment schedule" w/15 "out of time"finds 173 decisions.- Filter by date, amounts, adjudicator or party. Open any decision at the passage.
- New query answers a plain-English question from the decisions, linking each one.
- Adjudication decision, 26 May 2026
…that is the payment schedule I must consider under the Act for the purposes of this Adjudication as the second payment schedule was issued out of time.
- Adjudication decision, 15 October 2025
I note that neither party has provided me with a copy of the purported payment schedule and the schedule was, in any event, out of time having been submitted after 19 August 2025…
- Adjudication decision, 27 August 2025
…the claimant reversed its position and argued inter alia that the payment schedule was invalid due to being served out of time.
See how adjudicators have decided
Each adjudicator has a page: decisions, the average share of the claimed amount awarded, fee splits, nil awards, and every decision, searchable. Nominating Authorities groups outcomes by ANA affiliation, by year.
The figures describe published decisions. They are not an assessment of anyone and do not predict an outcome.
Decisions by year
Every published Queensland adjudication decision Sopal holds, under the 2004 Act and the BIF Act.
- 7,601
- decisions
- 2004
- first decision
- 2026
- latest decision
| Year | Decisions |
|---|---|
| 2004 | 1 |
| 2005 | 76 |
| 2006 | 299 |
| 2007 | 404 |
| 2008 | 472 |
| 2009 | 756 |
| 2010 | 604 |
| 2011 | 465 |
| 2012 | 516 |
| 2013 | 533 |
| 2014 | 428 |
| 2015 | 390 |
| 2016 | 326 |
| 2017 | 250 |
| 2018 | 257 |
| 2019 | 325 |
| 2020 | 232 |
| 2021 | 167 |
| 2022 | 179 |
| 2023 | 223 |
| 2024 | 221 |
| 2025 | 210 |
| 2026 | 154 |
Sopal Workspace
A private library of the submissions your organisation has written, and a place to draft the next one. For law firms, and for contractors and claims preparers who keep their own adjudication documents.
A library that files itself
Upload your past applications, responses and further submissions, as files or a zip. Each is read and filed by document type, parties, State, amounts and date. A submission uploaded twice is flagged.
| Document | State | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adjudication applicationSubcontractor v Head contractor | QLD | 46 | ReadingFiled |
| Adjudication responseBuilder v Developer | NSW | 38 | ReadingFiled |
| Further submissionsElectrical contractor v Builder | QLD | 12 | ReadingFiled |
| Adjudication applicationFormwork contractor v Builder | VIC | 61 | ReadingFiled |
| Adjudication responseHead contractor v Principal | QLD | 54 | ReadingFiled |
Go straight to the passage
Search every page with the same Boolean connectors as Decisions. Or ask in plain English, such as “which of our submissions argued the payment schedule was given late?”, and SopalAI answers from your library, opening each source at the page.
Which of our submissions argued the payment schedule was given late?
One application makes that argument.
Adjudication application – ABC Subcontractor v DEF Head Contractor, Part D. The payment schedule was given on the sixteenth business day, one day out of time. p 9
D. The payment schedule was not given within time
41.The claimant gave Payment Claim 14 to the respondent at 3.47 pm on Tuesday, 3 March 2026, by email to the address nominated in item 22 of the Contract Particulars.
42.The Contract does not fix a period for giving a payment schedule shorter than the period allowed by the Act. The respondent was therefore required to give a payment schedule within 15 business days after the payment claim was given: s 76(1) of the Act.
43.The fifteenth business day after 3 March 2026 was Tuesday, 24 March 2026. No day in that period is excluded from the definition of “business day” in schedule 2 of the Act.
44.The respondent’s document headed “Payment Schedule – PC14” was sent by email at 6.12 pm on Wednesday, 25 March 2026. It was given on the sixteenth business day, one day out of time.
Draft from your own precedents
Keep each matter’s documents in a project. Ask for a submission, or part of one: SopalAI reads the matter’s documents and your precedents, then the Act, judgments and decisions, and drafts in your format. Its edits show as tracked changes, and export to Word as tracked changes.
The “draft assessment” of 24 March 2026 was not a payment schedule
45.The claimant anticipates that the respondent will contend that the email sent by its contract administrator at 5.58 pm on 24 March 2026, attaching a spreadsheet headed “PC14 – draft assessment (subject to review)”, was a payment schedule given within time.
46.It was not. A payment schedule must identify the payment claim to which it responds and state the amount of the payment, if any, that the respondent proposes to make: s 69 of the Act. The draft assessment was plainly deficient.
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Sopal Tools
The adjudication process, step by step, with time limits and interest, for QLD, NSW and VIC. Choose a State and click a step.
Work out the dates
Choose the State and the step, and enter the date the clock starts. The due date calculator gives the last day, the section, and the days it skipped: weekends, public holidays and, in Queensland, the Christmas shutdown.
Try it: a Queensland payment claim given on Friday 11 December 2026 makes the payment schedule due on Thursday 21 January 2027.
Interest on a late payment
The interest calculator works out interest on an unpaid progress payment, day by day, at the rate the State’s Act allows or the contract rate.
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