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Insolvency is one of the risks to consider when looking to enforce an adjudicator’s decision, but sometimes there is also a concern that a party might take steps to dissipate its assets to avoid payment. The way to address such a risk is to obtain what is known as a freezing order, which is an injunction stopping a party from transferring, selling or dealing with its assets, until a judgment is satisfied. This is not a common procedure in adjudication, but a decision from December 2025, High Tech Construction Ltd v WLP Trading and Marketing Ltd [2025] 3209 (TCC) provides a useful example of how that would work in practice and the legal tests to be applied.