Peter Collie

Peter Collie

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Peter has 32 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. Having worked as in-house counsel, in April 2000 he moved to No. 5 Chambers in Birmingham. Peter joined Fenwick Elliott as a partner in November 2011.

Peter has acted on a wide variety of construction, building, civil engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, water and sewage engineering, clean room and I.T. disputes; as well as 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, EPC contracts both in the UK and internationally.

Specialist expertise
Peter has particular expertise in dispute resolution acting both as a party adviser and an independent neutral. Peter has had over 150 appointments as an independent third party dispute resolver.

Adviser
Peter provides strategic, detailed and tactical advise to clients be they Employers, contractors, subcontactors or Banks in relation to their rights and obligations under and relating to construction contracts around the world and in the UK. He provides written advocacy and appears as an advocate for his clients in courts and tribunals around the world.

Dispute Boards
Peter is on the FIDIC President’s Panel of Dispute Board Members. This list is currently limited to 46 people worldwide. He is a member of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation. Peter is an international adjudicator on Dispute Adjudication Boards, Dispute Resolution Boards and Dispute Avoidance Boards. He has lectured on the benefits of Dispute Boards in the UK, India, Mauritius and Dubai.

Adjudication
Peter is an adjudicator under the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 and internationally under FIDIC.

Arbitration
Peter is a Chartered Arbitrator and has conducted arbitrations in the UK and internationally including Dubai. He has been appointed as Arbitrator under the Water Industry Act, DIAC, CIArb as well as party appointments.
Mediation
Peter qualified as a mediator on the CEDR training programme in 1999 and has acted regularly as a mediator having dealt with a range of matters including construction disputes, IT, copyright, internet, and professional negligence.

Expert Determination
Peter has been appointed several times to act as “expert” to determine disputes.

Examples of Peter’s expertise include:

• Arbitration (FIDIC); Representing a specialist erection company in relation to a dispute over the erection of wind turbines in the North Sea
• Light Rail Engineering; ADR and Adjudications; Advising Blue Chip Client in relation to their contractual entitlement in relation to a large PFI Light Rail Infrastructure Project £45 million in Dispute.
• Light Rail Engineering; Adjudication; Representing a Blue Chip Client in a £7million dispute over who caused delays to a major PFI project
• Acted as Adjudicator on a FIDIC Engineering Contract circa £10 million dispute over the construction of a Power Station. The dispute included termination and the correct valuation of the works.
• Sole Dispute Board Member on a FIDIC Red Book dispute over Water and Sewerage installation in Bulgaria
• Co Arbitrator (DIAC) on a dispute over the termination of large water plant.
• Co arbitrator (DIAC) on a dispute over professional fees and alleged negligence.
• Water Engineering; Litigation, Court of Appeal; Representing Contractor in relation to Sewage Works Scrubbing Plant disputes.
• Representing the Employer (H.A.T) in a major claim for breach of contract and professional negligence.
• Construction advising a specialist international cladding contractor on a dispute over the supply and delivery of cladding for a mixed use development. Including successfully appearing as advocate to lift an injunction to prevent a bank paying under a Standby Letter of Credit.
• Advising a main contractor in an Adjudication under the NEC form of contract over the measurement and value of the works
• Mediator on a five party dispute in relation to high aluminum concrete structures.
• Advising on a contract for the construction of an International Airport.

Other activities
Peter is a visiting Lecturer on the M.Sc in Construction Law at the University of Wolverhampton. He lecturers, examines and assesses candidates for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the RICS. He lectures regularly for the CIOB, RICS, CIArb and various clients. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Building’s Dispute Resolution Board.

He was awarded the Chartered Institute of Building’s Silver Medal for the Contract Administration Paper of the Membership Examination in 1988.

Peter’s memberships/positions include:

• Member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
• Panel Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrator
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building
• Fellow of the Institute of Carpenters.
• Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• Licentiate of the City & Guilds of London Institute
• Member of the Society of Construction law, TECBAR, the Association of Midland Mediators and ADR Chambers.

Peter is on the following Panels:

• Arbitration: CIArb, RICS, TECBAR, ADR Chambers, DIAC
• Adjudication: RICS, CIOB, CIC, TECBAR, ACE (Founder Member), FIDIC
• Dispute Boards: DRBF, FIDIC
• Mediation: RICS, CIArb, Bar Council, TECBAR, ADR Chambers, AMM

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