Personal bio
Resume James Bridgeman SC, FCIArb, Chartered Arbitrator 26 January 2022 Current Employer/Title: Senior Counsel, The Law Library, Dublin and 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square, London. Profession: Barrister (independent practitioner) Work History: Practicing barrister, arbitrator, adjudicator, mediator 1992-present. Experience: 30 years’ experience as an advocate, advisor and neutral. Current and recent cases Court of Justice of the European Union (Case C 265/19), the Superior Courts of Ireland (chancery, common law and commercial),statutory adjudication, international arbitration, arbitration, construction adjudication (building, engineering and M&E), and mediation. Issues in dispute include construction (including mech & elec, groundworks), intellectual property (performers rights, copyright and internet domain names), International Treaties (TFEU, Vienna Convention, WPPT), European Law (transposition of EU Directive), human rights (arbitrary detention), whistleblowing, international protection of data, statutory tribunals established by the Irish Mental Health Commission) alleged professional negligence, provision of academic services within a university and a neighbour/boundary/property dispute. Pro bono advocacy before the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the ECtHR (details on request). Alternative Dispute Resolution Experience: Formerly President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2018), FCIArb. Formerly Board Member and Chair of the Irish Branch. Formerly member of the Commission on Arbitration ICC and member of the ICC National Committee for Ireland. Member of the ADR Committee of the Bar Council of Ireland and member of the ADR panel of the Bar Council of England & Wales. Tribunal member, arbitrator, (chair and sole panellist) in over 500 arbitrations, tribunals and administrative proceedings including 80 construction, partnership, insurance, real property, distributorship, intellectual property arbitrations and adjudications