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CEDR Arbitrator

John Redmond

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John Redmond

John Redmond

CEDR Panel member since 2017

Educated: University of Kent at Canterbury
College of Law, Chester

Qualifications:

BA (Hons), Law 1973

Solicitor 1976

Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 1994
Chartered Arbitrator, 1999

Arbitrator Member, Society of Construction Arbitrators

Member of the London Court of International Arbitration

Member of the following Panels of Adjudicators and Arbitrators:
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Construction Industry Council Technology and Construction Solicitors Association
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

The Law Society

CEDRSolve

Irish Government Panel of Construction Adjudicators 

Professional career: Trainee Solicitor, Cobbetts, Manchester 1974-76
Assistant Solicitor, Clyde & Co London 1976-78
Assistant Solicitor and Partner, Laytons Bristol 1978-2000
Partner, Osborne Clarke 2000 – 2010

Consultant, Osborne Clarke, 2010 – continuing

Independent Arbitrator, Adjudicator & Mediator

Recent appointments as Arbitrator and similar include

  • Sole arbitrator in dispute about commercial refrigeration unit used in agricultural production
  • Sole arbitrator in property development dispute
  • Sole arbitrator, dispute about international distributorship agreement, footwear industry (parties in UK and Spain)
  • Sole arbitrator (ICC appointment) in international shareholder dispute re professional football club (parties in UK and Japan).
  • Sole Arbitrator in an Irish Civil Engineering dispute involving road construction
  • Sole arbitrator (ICC appointment) in dispute relating to international distributorship agreement for medical equipment (parties in Belgium and Austria).
  • Sole arbitrator in several construction and engineering disputes in UK
  • Expert for expert determination proceedings involving IT software escrow account dispute between major Irish public authority and software provider
  • Arbitrator in dispute re professional fees in international ship building dispute (parties in UK and Turkey)
  • Chairman of FIDIC Dispute Adjudication Board, dam construction project, Sudan (parties Chinese Contractor and Sudanese Government) (2 references)
  • Sole member ICC Dispute Board, photo-voltaic plant in France
  • Expert (ICC appointment) to determine dispute re disputed termination of road construction contract in Nigeria (parties Nigerian contractor and Nigerian State Government)
  • Arbitrator in dispute between local authority and care provider
  • Arbitrator in several professional partnership disputes, including accountancy and solicitors’ practices
  • Arbitrator in several landlord and tenant and other property disputes
  • Adjudicator in over 200 construction adjudications
  • Regular appointments as Mediator in wide ranging variety of disputes, including multi party cases 

As Solicitor, a specialist in construction contract disputes since 1980. Head of Construction Law for Laytons and subsequently Osborne Clarke nationally. Extensive experience of construction litigation and arbitration in civil engineering and conventional building projects and related fields.

Indicative reported UK cases include Birse Construction v St David (recognised as the leading case on disputes arising out of partnering relationships), Tesco v Costain (limitation issues in negligence) and Birse Construction v Eastern Telegraph (measure of damage in defects claims). Regularly acting for employers, contractors and subcontractors in a wide range of projects and disputes, including the collapse of a port complex, power plant construction, sports stadia and several underground railway and road tunnel projects (eg the Jubilee Line Extension, Docklands Light Railway and Channel Tunnel Rail Link).

International cases include disputes relating to the refurbishment of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the construction of Dublin Port Tunnel, a highway project in Ghana, commercial and diplomatic buildings in Moscow, a residential development in Budapest, a sports stadium in Korea, an international hotel in the Ukraine, process plant projects in Fujeirah and South Africa and pipeline projects in Brazil and Saudi Arabia.

National Chairman, Society of Construction Law, 1996 - 1998

Author of Adjudication in Construction Contracts (February 2001) and Civil Engineering Claims (with Douglas Stephenson) (third edition 1999) both published by Blackwell Scientific

Regular contributor to publications such as Building and speaker on construction law and dispute resolution topics in UK and Europe.

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Calendar

3 May 2018 Mediator Professional Development: Negotiation Skills for Mediators

7 May 2018 Investor State Mediator Training - Paris

16 May 2018 Advanced Negotiation Skills - Module 1 - London

31 May 2018 2018 CPR European Congress on Business Dispute Management

News and articles

29 Mar 2018 The CEDR Mediation Audit 2018 (news)

26 Mar 2018 Cardiff University win 2018 CEDR National Student Negotiation Competition for England and Wales (news)

22 Mar 2018 BBC and Personal Service Companies (news)

30 Jan 2018 Mediating the Organisational Maze (article)

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