John Tackaberry QC MA LLM FCIArb FFB

Practice:

Registered Chartered Arbitrator
Former UNCC Commissioner
Former Recorder
Mediator
Adjudicator
DRB work

Significant Work:

Construction cases have included disputes about a hotel project in the Gambia; the construction of Fantasy Land in Paris; a glass walling contract in London; a lift installation contract in Hong Kong; prefabricated housing in Saudi Arabia; the Mercury Court office development in Liverpool; the Westminster and Chelsea Hospital building; local authority housing rehabilitation schemes; the construction of a tertiary education campus in HK plus related areas of dispute such as copyright issues re architects’ designs;

Engineering Work has included disputes about a gypsum plant in Jordan; a steel mill in Egypt; a major gas storage and pumping station in Poland; an LPG plant in Malaysia; underground storage of LPG in Australia; a catcracker (refinery equipment) in Australia; a mining collapse dispute; an undersea cable dispute (North Sea); a barge mounted generating plant in Bangladesh; a shipping dispute in India; an industrial boiler and water treatment installation plant in England; a major offshore fabrication dispute in the gulf; Connah’s Quay, Kirklareli and other combined cycle power stations; a coastal defence project; the British Library M & E contract; the conversion of the Solitaire into the world’s largest dynamically positioned pipelaying vessel; the BTC pipeline.

Commercial work has included a taxi franchise in the High Court; a bus contract in Turkey; a share dealing dispute in HK and continental Europe; a commission dispute arising out of Westland v Saudi Arabia (a major case in the 90s); a follow on dispute to the CME television rights dispute; an aircraft servicing dispute in Africa - involving serious corruption issues;

Work at the UNCC involved five years of intensive dispute resolution on a paper only basis utilising a locally based legal team. 196 construction claims were addressed. The total value of the claims exceeded $3 billion.

Positions and memberships include Past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and first chairman of its Executive Committee. Also a principal architect of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ international activities and of its Special Fellowship courses. Founding President of the Society of Construction Law and Past President of the European Society of Construction Law. A principal editor of the Handbook of Arbitration Practice. Past or present member of many international arbitration panels. CEDR Mediator. Vice President of the Arbitration Club. Adjudication and D.R.B [Dispute Resolution Board] work. A member of ADR Chambers and of the Construction Disputes Division, European Court of Arbitration.

A Principal Editor of Bernstein, Handbook of Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Practice.

Recipient of the 2006 President’s Medal, awarded bi-annually by the Society of Construction Law for services to construction law.

Career & Education:
Year of Call: Year of Silk: Appointed a Recorder: Appointed to the International Bar: Other career information:	1967 1982 1988 - 2005 Bar of Malaysia 1982 Bar of Ireland 1987 Bar of California 1988 Bar of Hong Kong 1988 Bar of New South Wales (also QC) 1989 Visiting Professor in Construction Law, Queensland University of Technology. Commissioner of the United Nations Compensation Commission 1998-2003

Career & Education:

Year of Call:

Year of Silk:

Appointed a Recorder:

Appointed to the International Bar:

Other career information:

1967

1982

1988 - 2005

Bar of Malaysia 1982

Bar of Ireland 1987

Bar of California 1988