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Reference
Number
Nature of
Variation
Claimant's
Respondent's
Amount
in
dispute
Arbitrator's
comments
Details
Amount
claimed
Comments
Amount
agreed
.
Figure 9.1 A typical Scott Schedule.
The putting together of a claim requires all the discipline of legal argu-
ment or a piece of scholarly research, analytical in nature, leaving nothing
out, taking nothing for granted and citing appropriate authority or evidence
for every statement.
9.3 'Scott Schedule'
A 'Scott' or Official Referee's Schedule is a formal document used in litiga-
tion, arbitration and adjudication, setting out the issues in dispute in tabular
form, with space for the contentions of the opposing parties to be set out
against each other for easy reference. While it is inappropriate to submit a
claim in such a form initially, the claim should be prepared so that the
factual information in it can, if necessary, easily be transferred to such a
schedule.
Particularly where a claim is based on a large number of variations or
even the final account, a simplified version of the schedule can be useful to
give an overview and keep control over which parts of the claim are agreed
and which disputed.
There is no standard form for a Scott Schedule and every case will
generate its own schedule. Figure 9.1 is an example of a typical schedule
relating to a contractor's claim resulting from variations arising under
clause 13 of JCT 80.
