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Commercial Contracts: A four handed mediation regarding the sale of an allegedly defective lorry loader crane.

Construction & Engineering

• Cement works construction project in South Africa.
• Acted as arbitrator on a number of disputes related to commercial building projects in Dubai under DIAC rules.
• Acting as Sole Member for a DB procedure concerning a defence installation project.
• Acting as Dispute Board Chairman in respect of two major (£0.5 billion each) construction projects involving the British MOD. Both projects extend well into the future.
• Acting as counsel on a dispute related defects in design, construction and operation of a food manufacturing plant.
• Dispute between an employer and a firm of a professional engineers regarding the design.

Energy & Natural Resources

• Mediator of a number of Oil extraction operations disputes in Saudi Arabia.
• Middle-East petro-chemical production project, involving multi-national parties.
• Indonesian oil production project.
• Claims related to the operation of a North Sea oil rig.
• Arbitrator of dispute in Yemen related to oil and gas exploration and extraction.
• Expert Determinator of contractual claims over a power station turnkey contract in Oman.
• Dispute review Board member for a Caribbean oil exploration, extraction and production project.
• Chairman of the European ITER nuclear fusion project Dispute Board.

ICT: Information Communication & Technology

• Arbitrator of two disputes related to underwater fibre optic cables in the Persian Gulf.
• Acting as Dispute Review Board Chairman in respect of a World Bank funded telecommunications project in India.

Infrastructure

• Dispute related to the collapse of a rail tunnel during construction causing major damage to property and loss of earnings to affected business. Multiple stakeholders from the construction industry and business with 100 participants.
• Acting as arbitrator of a Dubai road system dispute under Dubai Road Traffic Authority Rules. (UAE laws).
• Acted as a Dispute Board member under ROC conciliation rules regarding a High Speed Rail link project in Taiwan.
• Chairman of ICC arbitration tribunal concerning Ukrainian infrastructure project and a US military facility.

Intellectual Property

• U.S. intellectual property dispute, involving multinational parties and copyright issues.
• Australian technical product franchisee dispute with U.S. manufacturer related to commercial and patent issues.
• Patent claim by Swiss inventor against major UK company in the nuclear reprocessing industry, involving state-of-the-art research.

Professional Negligence

• Ministry of Defence claim against professional engineers responsible for a security establishment, involving important national installation.
• Dispute between 'Employer / Main Contractor' and firm of professional consulting engineers regarding design of an extension to port facilities.

Property: Dispute related to a mixed use commercial property development in Hong Kong SAR.

Shipping: Defects in custom made, high-tech sea-going vessel, involving complex legal issues.

Utilities: Bangkok water and sewage infrastructure project, involving multi-million pound claims and three parties.

 

Updated: August 2017