Rebecca Williams

LLB BA

Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Solicitor of the High Court of Australia and the Federal Court of Australia

rwilliams@fenwickelliott.co.uk

Assistant solicitor

Contract experience

Rebecca’s experience includes the JCT Major Forms, GC/Works and numerous bespoke contracts including EPC forms.

General experience

Rebecca has a broad range of contentious experience including international arbitration, TCC and other high court litigation, adjudication and all forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution including mediation and expert determination.

Rebecca has represented clients in a range of major construction, engineering and energy disputes in arbitral and adjudication proceedings and before the TCC. She has experience in claims for varied work, additional cost and expense, delay and disruption, extensions of time, prolongation, mitigation, acceleration, defective workmanship and design and complex quantification issues.

Recently Rebecca acted for a process plant engineering company in relation to multiple multi million pound adjudications arising out of the construction of an energy-from-waste process plant.

Career

Rebecca qualified with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the Australian National University in 1996. In 1995 Rebecca was awarded a scholarship to study at Indiana University in the United States as part of the Australian National University – Indiana University exchange programme.

Rebecca was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1997 and as a Solicitor of the High Court of Australia and Federal Court of Australia in 1999.

Whilst in Sydney, Rebecca practised as a solicitor with Riley-Gray-Spencer for 4 years gaining wide experience in insurance and commercial litigation including professional indemnity and construction.

Rebecca relocated to the United Kingdom in 2001 and was admitted to the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2003. Since relocating to the United Kingdom she has worked at Harbottle & Lewis and Lane & Partners LLP in the Construction and Arbitration department.

Rebecca is a member of the Technology and Construction Solicitors Association and the Society of Construction Law. 

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