Experience Advising:

• Large building and civil-engineering contactors on some of the largest disputes to have arisen to date under the public works contract form.
• A housing association on professional-negligence proceedings against its consultant team, after the catastrophic failure of unusual structural elements on a public-housing development.
• Contractors on the prosecution and defence of adjudication proceedings pursuant to the Construction Contracts Act.
• The successful contractor in the leading High Court decision regarding the enforcement of adjudicators' decisions.
• On novel types of construction claims – including claims relating to Sectoral Employment Orders and the incorrect specification of technical products in tender documents.
• A multinational insurance company on the successful defence of performance-bond enforcement proceedings in the context of a high-profile project in the west of Ireland.
• Receivers and liquidators on the prosecution and defence of claims by insolvent construction companies.
• An international contractor on the defence of arbitral proceedings, and multiple rounds of associated litigation in another European jurisdiction.
• A leading contractor on the potential for a highly-technical claim pursuant to its contractors' all-risks policy.