About Anthony Edwards
Anthony Edwards – Construction Barrister
Anthony Edwards specialises in heavy construction disputes arising from building & engineering activities both nationally and internationally relating to breach of contract, delay & disruption, time extensions, prolongation, payment provisions, acceleration, loss of productivity, final accounts and conflict of laws and professional negligence actions against professional advisers including architects/engineers, surveyors and solicitors with extensive experience in mediation, adjudication, arbitration and litigation.
He has worked with most of the standard forms of contracts amongst others JCT, ICE, FIDIC, NEC, IChemE on projects including; hospitals, water treatment plants, railways, power stations, petro-chemical, mechanical & electrical services, bridges and domestic dwellings.
Anthony also undertakes general commercial and property related matters.
Worldwide Service
Anthony undertakes work worldwide and has carried out dispute resolution in amongst other countries UK, Iraq, China, Hong Kong, France, Norway, Turkey, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Uganda, Tanzania, Egypt, Rwanda, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Ethiopia, Montenegro and Middle East.
Qualifications
Barrister-at-Law
Chartered Arbitrator FCIArb Dip ICArb
Accredited Adjudicator (CIArb, FIDIC, IChemE)
Mediator, (CEDR, CIArb, TeCSA, ADR Group)
Quantity Surveyor, BSc (Hons).
Professional Membership & Panels
CIArb, FIDIC, SHIAC, IDRC, TECBAR, IChemE, CEDR, ACE, CIOB, HKIAC, LMAA, LCIA, MCIOB
Personal Information
Education: Universities; Leeds & Newcastle
Previous Employer: Gleesons Plc (civils)
Prizes: Awarded the CIArbs’ Cedric Barclay Prize for the best International Award Writer of 2005
Awards / Decisions: Made numerous awards as Adjudicator / Arbiter concerning; construction and commercial disputes
Publications: Numerous articles in practitioners’ and learned journals
Author: Currently writing a book “Acceleration & Productivity Disputes in Construction “ under contract with Blackwells.
Hobbies: Rowing, Running and Travel
Recent Instructions
Sole LCIA Adjudicator on an European wind farm construction & engineering dispute
DAAB on express road Uganda
Arbitrator DIFC LCIA arbitration regarding a development on Palm Jumeriah, Dubai
Sole DB regarding a consultant dispute in Dubai under a Silver Book project
Acting as FIDIC Mediator regarding an employer and consultant dispute in Abu Dhabi
Chairman of a DAB escalation clause dispute London.
Acting as counsel in an ICC arbitration dispute in Montenegro concerning consultant’s delay
Chairman of a DAB regarding disputes concerning piling, LV Cabling and ductile Iron Pipes.
Adjudicator on an European gasification plant
Chairman of a DAB regarding Hydro Power, Rwanda
Adjudicator on an European biomass plant and cofferdam sheet piling defects
Chairman of a DAB regarding disputes in a water treatment and supply project, Iraq
Adjudication Forth Bridge delay and disruption claim on concrete formwork
Chairman of a DAB in Dubai, defective concrete rebar pile foundation
Sole DB – highways Uganda.
Chairman of a DAB regarding variations and final account dispute Paris.
Chairman of a DAB in Nairobi, price adjustment/escalation claim
Sole DB – Uganda road, infrastructure
Sole adjudicator anaerobic digestion plant negligent design
Chairman of a DAB in Tanzania Commercial, Office and leisure building
Arbitration, Serbian power station preferred engineering dispute
Irrigation dispute Saudi Arabia
Arbitration, Turkish power station nr Ankara, extension of time dispute
Arbitration appeal (TCC)
Anaerobic digestion plant biogas facility final account dispute Adjudication
Cross Rail Paddington Station (UK)
Drax bio plant adjudication
Italian bio plant, final account DB Adjudication
Sole DB highway infrastructure dispute Africa
Counsel for end of life plastic to fuel plant, repudiatory breach, delay & disruption, Ireland
Norway, petro-chemical platform delay & disruption dispute Arbitration
Contract interpretation and construction of NEC3 contract clauses
European sports stadium defective design dispute Arbitration
Motorway infrastructure dispute Arbitrator
ICC arbitration Paris, power station material handling dispute
Architect’s negligent design regarding fireproof cladding to a block of apartments
Arbitration cement plants breach of contract regarding material handling plant & equipment
Adjudicator DAB African pipeline
Petro-chemical defective design arbitration
Arbitration bio plant breach of contract, Scotland