Peter is a dual qualified construction professional and barrister he has 40 years’ experience in the construction industry and has worked as legal adviser on major projects around the world. According to The Legal 500 UK Peter has acted in several international multimillion-pound disputes, he “stands out as being a specialist” and is recommended as “extremely knowledgeable, tactical and reliable”. After 15 years working in the construction industry, Peter was called to the Bar in 1994 and was self employed in Chambers from 2000.
Peter has acted in a wide variety of construction, building, civil engineering, rail, road, tunnelling, dam construction, mechanical and electrical engineering, water and sewage engineering, power, process plants, clean room and IT disputes, as well as in professional negligence matters involving architects, building surveyors, quantity surveyors, civil engineers, M&E engineers and project managers.
Peter has significant experience of FIDIC, JCT, ICE, NEC, IChemE, IMechE and EPC contracts both in the UK and internationally as well as PFI and PPP experience both in the UK and internationally. Peter negotiated one of the first PFI Hospital projects in the 1990’s and since then has been involved in a number of disputes over PFI and PPP infrastructure arrangements both in the UK and Internationally.
Peter has been appointed to the FIDIC Contract Committee responsible for drafting the suite of FIDIC Contracts.