Julian Critchlow

LLB, MSc, PhD, FCIArb, Solicitor, Arbitrator
Registered Adjudicator, Accredited Mediator

jcritchlow@fenwickelliott.co.uk

Partner

Contract experience

Julian is experienced in all principal contracts including JCT and ICE, IEE, GC/Works, I CHEM E, FIDIC; subcontracts; and numerous bespoke forms of international and domestic contracts.

General experience

Julian has specialised in all forms of construction law for most of his career, acting in both contentious and non-contentious matters for a wide variety of construction clients. Typical issues have concerned procurement advice (including partnering), contract drafting and vetting, bonds, guarantees and collateral warranties. He advises on both national and international disputes regarding such matters as contract formation, defects, loss and expense, prolongation/delay, certification, determination/repudiation, and insolvency.

Julian is also an arbitrator, a TeCSA registered adjudicator, and a CEDR accredited mediator. He has been identified as one of the country's leading construction lawyers by Legal Business and Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession and the Legal 500.

Career

Julian read law at University College London before taking an MSc and PhD in Construction Law and Arbitration at King's College London. Articled at Field Fisher and Martineau, he was a partner at Winward Fearon and SJ Berwin before joining Fenwick Elliott, as a partner, in January 1999.

Other activities

Julian regularly lectures and writes on construction law and arbitration issues. He is the author of Making Partnering Work in the Construction Industry, joint author (with Prof Rob Merkin) of Arbitration Forms and Precedents, joint author (with Keith Pickavance and Nick Gould) of the Change Management Supplement, contributor to the Construction Law Handbook, contributor to Law for Construction Professionals, former joint editor of Construction Law Newsletter, an arbitration editor of Amicus Curiae (the journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies), and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of ADR, Mediation, and Negotiation. He is also a tutor on the MSc course at King's College London, and a Commissioner of the Foundation for International Commercial Arbitration.

Memberships

Julian is an Associate Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators, a Commissioner of the Foundation for International Commercial Arbitration, a member of the Technology and Construction Solicitors Association, the Arbitration Club, the Society of Construction Law, King's College Construction Law Association, the Adjudication Society and the Construction Contracts Mediators Group.

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