INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION
INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION ARBITRATION: HANDLED WITH AUTHORITY. ROBUST REPRESENTATION. PERSUASIVE ADVOCACY.
New Temple Chambers offers exceptional legal advice, drafting, and legal representation in international arbitration of construction, engineering and infrastructure disputes.
Our international arbitration practice has a particular focus on complex construction, engineering and infrastructure disputes arising out of FIDIC Contracts, EPC and other bespoke construction and engineering contracts.
Chambers acts in international arbitrations arising from major construction, engineering and infrastructure projects worldwide. We accept instructions in high-value disputes involving delay and disruption, variations, extensions of time, termination, and final accounts under the leading arbitral rules (including ICC and the LCIA). Combining deep sector knowledge of construction, engineering and infrastructure contracts with rigorous procedural and evidential strategy, we provide robust and focused representation and advocacy from jurisdictional challenges and interim relief through to final hearings and enforcement.
Chambers accepts in arbitrations involving complex construction, engineering and infrastructure disputes, involving delays, quantum and valuation disputes and technically demanding expert evidence.
Charles Edwards, FCInstCES, MSt(Cantab), MSc(Lond), Barrister, leads the international arbitration practice. He is dual-qualified and holds a master’s degree in construction law and arbitration from the Centre of Construction Law at King’s College London and a graduate of the University of Cambridge (Departments of Engineering and Architecture). Charles combines technical understanding with legal precision.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), a Member of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators, and a member of the Technology and Construction Bar Association (TECBAR), the Commercial Bar Association and the Chancery Bar Association…
At New Temple Chambers, clients benefit from first-class advocacy, technical insight, and strategic legal advice in complex international disputes across the construction, engineering, and infrastructure sectors.
SERVICES
- Strategic advice and setting out the overall strategy to be adopted in construction and engineering arbitrations, from pre-dispute to enforcement of an Arbitrator’s Award, in order to obtain the best possible outcome in construction arbitration.
- Legal advice on the merits of the dispute, the applicable construction contract, including FIDIC 2017 suite of contracts, FIDIC Red Book, FIDIC Yellow, FIDIC Silver Book, NEC4 or bespoke construction contract.
- Settlement strategy and without prejudice advice in construction disputes.
- Legal advice on jurisdiction, admissibility and governing law.
- Analysis of the evidence (contractual mechanisms, notices, scope of works, variations, extensions of time, breach of contract, termination of contract and final accounts).
- Advising on evidence in complex construction and engineering disputes (technical reports, delay reports and quantum reports).
- Evidence strategy, including factual, technical, delay and quantum expert evidence.
- Procedural strategy including bifurcation and consolidation.
- Drafting statements of case and other written submissions.
- Advice on Disclosure strategy and management.
- Advice on and representation in interim and emergency relief, including injunctions and security.
- Attendance and advocacy at the arbitration hearings, including written and oral submissions.
- Cross-examination of technical, delay and quantum experts.
- Applications to the High Court in support of the arbitration process (if necessary).
- Challenges to arbitral awards and jurisdiction under applicable arbitration legislation.
- Enforcement of the Arbitrator’s Award, including muti-jurisdictional strategy.
- Advising and representation in related proceedings on appeal of an Arbitrator’s Award in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
HEAD OF CHAMBERS
Charles Edwards (2002) MSt(Cantab) MSc(Lond) MRICS MCIArb FCInstCES of Middle Temple, is a high performing Construction Barrister.
- Barrister (2002) (Middle Temple)
- Technology and Construction Bar Association
- Chancery Bar Association
- Commercial Bar Association
- MSc(Lond) King’s College London
- MSt(Cantab) University of Cambridge, Wolfson College
- Robust representation and focused advocacy where the stakes are high and the outcomes matter.
- We are trusted to handle business critical disputes in Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure, in which financial exposure, reputation and strategic objectives are firmly at play.
- We act decisively in complex commercial disputes combining rigorous legal analysis, with deep sector knowledge to provide clear strategic judgment to protect your commercial interests.
EXPERIENCE
RECENT INSIGHTS
“Having had the privilege of working with Charles I can say he is extremely dedicated, precise, and utterly relentless. A leading thinker in the construction law field, and an advocate you most certainly want on your side.”
– Director (UK multidisciplinary practice)