ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Nicholas Gould BSc LLM FRICS FCIArb MCIOB

Nicholas is a partner at Fenwick Elliott LLP, the UK’s largest specialist construction and engineering solicitors. He advises on, drafts, negotiates and settles construction documents, and provides strategic contract and dispute avoidance advice. His dispute resolution experience spans negotiation, ADR, adjudication, arbitration and litigation, not just in the UK but internationally. He is an accredited adjudicator and dispute board member, and regularly acts as lead mediator in multi-million, multiparty mediations. Nicholas is Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Centre for Expertise (Centre International d’Expertise de la CCI), past Chairman of the Society of Construction Law and Senior Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London. He has published widely in the area of construction law and dispute resolution. The IBA’s 2009 edition of International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers Today listed Nicholas as one of the ten most highly regarded individuals internationally for construction law.

Claire King BA MSc

Claire read Modern History at Somerville College Oxford, before converting to law. She qualified into Ashurst’s Litigation Department in 2003, becoming a Senior Associate in May 2008. Whilst at Ashurst she acted on a broad range of disputes but specialised in construction. She joined Fenwick Elliott in September 2008. At the end of 2009 Claire achieved a Distinction in her MSc in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution at King’s College London, being awarded the Bickerdike Allen Prize for the best examination performance by a first-year student, the KCCLA Prize for the best performance in the second-year examinations, the Arbitration Club Philip Ranner Prize for the best Module D (arbitration) result and the Society of Construction Law Prize for the best dissertation. She is a Solicitor Advocate, specialising in all major forms of dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration and adjudication as well as mediation. She has acted on a wide range of domestic and international construction disputes for both employers and contractors. Since joining Fenwick Elliott she has advised on a successful arbitration under the DIAC Rules arising out of the Jumeirah Village development in Dubai, as well as numerous domestic adjudications. She has also gained experience on a range of high value energy projects, including power and desalination plants in the Middle East and power stations within the United Kingdom.

Philip Britton LLB BCL

Philip joined the Centre of Construction Law at King’s College London in 1998, becoming its Director in 1999. He previously taught in the School of Law at the University of Warwick (19701991) and was Production Director at Television Education Network (1991-1996), writing and producing video programmes for CPD for lawyers, civil engineers, chartered surveyors and accountants, including on construction topics. Between 1994 and 2001 he was part-time Associate Professor at the University of Lille 2 (France), teaching English law to French law students; he also developed video and interactive training programmes in competition law for Coca-Cola Enterprises, as well as translating court documents for the International Court of Justice in The Hague. He has been a Chief Examiner and Moderator for the CIArb; and was a co-opted Council member of the Society of Construction Law (2001-2003). From 2002 to 2005 he was also part-time Director of Professional Education at the law firm Farrer & Co. He has four times won one of the SCL’s annual Hudson Prizes for an essay on a construction law topic and in 2008 won the Society of Construction Arbitrators Norman Royce essay prize. He regularly edits papers for publication by the SCL and is also joint Series Editor (with Phillip Capper) of Informa’s construction law library. He retired as Director of the Centre at the start of 2008 and now has a Visiting Professorship in the College.