About Us
Chris graduated in 1980 and became a Chartered Engineer in 1984. He has worked as an engineer in the UK, South Africa and the Middle East. Since qualifying as a solicitor in 1990, he has specialised almost exclusively in construction law advising on major contentious and non-contentious issues in the UK and internationally for firms including Masons, Allen & Overy and Fenwick Elliott.
Chris runs training courses and lectures extensively on construction law, adjudication and related matters and has interviewed for adjudication panel membership on behalf of TeCSA, the ICE and the RIB.
He is a Registered Adjudicator listed on the ICE, TeCSA, CIArb, CIOB, RIBA, CIC and RICS .panels. and. a .Registered .Arbitrator .on .the .ICE .panel. He founded www.adjudication.co.uk in 1999, is a member of the ICE Conciliation and Adjudication Advisory Panel (CAAP) and is Chairman of the TeCSA Adjudication Sub-Committee.
Other memberships include the Institution of Civil Engineers, Adjudication Society, Society of Construction Law, Law Society, British Tunnelling Society, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Society of Construction Arbitrators. He has completed and passed the FIDIC assessment course for membership of the President’s DAB panel.
UK based disputes include substantial adjudication, arbitration, litigation, mediation and other ADR proceedings concerning offices, hospitals, residential buildings, oil platforms, motorways, heavy lifting platforms and tunnels. International matters have concerned ports and dry docks in the Middle East, where he was resident for two years, transportation infrastructure in Malaysia and oil transportation and loading facilities in the Sudan.
