• Office of the Deputy Prime Minister appointed arbitrator
  
• Welsh Assembly Government appointed arbitrator
  
• General Council of the Bar of England and Wales Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee
  
• Chairman, Communications and Internet Services Adjudication Scheme under the aegis of Ofcom
  
• Chairman, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators IDRS Panel of Conveners for arbitration, adjudication and mediation
  
• Chairman, Royal Institute of Biritsh Architects Presidents Advisory Committee on Dispute Resolution for arbitrators, adjudicators and mediators
  
• Secretary, Association of Welsh Mediators
  
• Committee member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Panels Management Group

QUALIFICATIONS

• B.Sc. (First)
  
• B.Arch.(Distinction)
  
• Ph.D
  
• RIBA
  
• F.C.I. Arb.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Construction Industry Council
  
• The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  
• London Court of International Arbitration
  
• RIBA
  
• Association of Welsh Mediators
  
• Wales Commercial Law Association
  
• National Academy of Dispute Resolution
  
• Law Works Pro-Bono Mediation
  
• Wales Circuit Specialist Bar Association
  

FIELDS OF WORK

• Building, Construction & Engineering Contracts
- Formation of contracts, mistake and misrepresentation
- Interpretation of construction and engineering contracts and subcontracts
- Obligations and liabilities of employers, main contractors and subcontractors
- Professional negligence and standard of skill and care of architects, engineers and quantity surveyors
- Third party rights, assignments of contractual rights
- Warranties and bonds
- Impossibility of performance, contributory negligence, economic duress, estoppel and exclusion clauses
- Licence
- Liability for design, inspection and supervision
- Quality and fitness of materials and workmanship
- Vesting of property in materials and lien
- Variations, valuations and liquidated damages
- Payment, non-payment, quantum meruit and recovery of payments
- Interim certificates, final certificates, set-offs and approvals
- Delays to the programme
- Determination and discharge of contracts
- Latent damage
- Insolvency
- Negligence, nuisance, breaches of statutory duty, vicarious liability, occupiers liability and liabilities to third persons

• Companies and Partnerships
- Partners' rights between themselves and liability to third persons
- Partnership property, division of assets and profits
- Partners' lien
- Dissolution of partnerships
- Powers and liabilities of companies
- Ownership and disposition of company property
- Insolvency

• Landlord and Tenant
- Leases, underleases, and licences
- Reversions and assignments of leases
- Content, interpretation, variations and implied terms of leases
- Fixtures and fittings
- Terms of tenancies, terminating leases, notices to quit, recovering possession and security of tenure
- Payment, non-payment, deductions and recovery of rent
- Rent reviews
- Repair, rebuilding, waste, fitness, alterations and improvements of premises
- Tenants' obligations to landlords, and vice-versa
- Benefit and burden of covenants for quiet enjoyment

• Real Property
- Purchase, sale and rent of land/property
- Construing title deeds, statutory declarations, maps and photographs
- Rectification and estoppel
- Boundary disputes
- Land registry adjudications
- Creation and extinguishment of easements and licences
- Easement disputes including rights of way, ways of necessity, rights of lights, rights of support, and water rights
- Trespass to land and airspace
- Adverse possession and recovery of land
- Nuisance and abatement
- Party walls, party structures, and access to neighbouring land
- Professional negligence of valuers, estate agents and surveyors 

• Planning
- Planning applications, permissions, appeals and judicial review
- Compulsory purchases, acquisition of land, adverse effects on property and compensation
- Development of land, changes of use and permitted developments
- Environmental impact assessments and protection of wildlife
- Listed buildings consent and enforcement
- Developments and development control within conservation areas, SSSIs, areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, National Parks and Urban Development Areas
- Enforcement of planning control and enforcement notice appeals
- Highways improvements
- Publicity (including lack of) for planning applications
- Lands Tribunal relief

• ADR: Arbitration, Adjudication and Mediation
- Jurisdiction and powers of the tribunal
- Construing agreements for arbitration and adjudication
- Loss of right to object
- Default of parties
- Joinder of parties
- Arbitration awards, adjudication decisions and mediation settlements
- Enforcement of, and appeals to, awards and decisions
- Costs

• E-Commerce and consumer affairs
- On-line resolution in business to consumer e-commerce transactions
- Communications and internet services adjudications
- Consumer portection
- Sale of goods, supply of services, distance selling and enforcement
- Privacy and data protection issues
- Contract formation including internet contracts and termination of contracts
- Identification of contracting parties and insolvency of parties
- Incorporation of terms and conditions, unfair contract terms and breaches of contract
- Lost data, lost business revenue
- Mobile and broadband services
- Payments, direct debits, cash-back arrangements, charges, overcharging and debt collection