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PETER AEBERLI MA, BA, Dip Arch, Dip ICArb, RIBA,
ARIAS, ACE, FCIArb, Barrister, Chartered Arbitrator, Adjudicator, Registered CEDR
Mediator
PETER AEBERLI is a Canadian citizen, resident in the
United Kingdom. He is duly qualified as Architect and Barrister and is
an experienced arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator. Apart from his work
as a barrister, his focus is dispute resolution principally, but not
solely, in the construction industry. He has handled two party and
multi-party disputes with values up to £8 million. He is available for
and has received appointments as arbitrator, adjudicator and/or mediator
by party agreement and from bodies such as the CIArb (including NHBC),
the CIOB, the Construction Confederation, AICA, the RIBA, the ICE, the
ICC and the Law Society. He is listed as an adjudicator on high value
and prestigious projects including the London 2012 Adjudication Panel
and BAA Terminal 5. He is listed on numerous panels including the FIDIC
President’s list of dispute adjudicators, the ICC Canadian National
Committee Panel of International Commercial Arbitrators, the ICDR
(American Arbitration Association) panel of international arbitrators,
the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (USA)
Roster of arbitrators and mediators and Engineers’ Ireland panel of
arbitrators.
Prior to reading law as a scholar at Hertford
College, Oxford, Peter was a project architect with the Building Design
Partnership, a large multi-disciplinary consultancy, and gained
experience and understanding of the different skills, both professional
and contracting, needed to realise complex construction projects,
including hospitals, retail development and military installations. He
has an good understanding of building technology being, for a number of
years, a visiting lecturer in building construction at what is now
Oxford Brooks University. He remains involved in the construction
industry, having served on a number of client bodies, and has engaged
builders on projects of his own from time to time. He was, for a number
of years in the mid 1990s a Joint Secretary of the Joint Contracts
Tribunal (JCT).
Disputes on which Peter has been appointed, have
involved:
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Legal issues.
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Development and partnering agreements.
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Technical issues, such as alleged paint, roofing, cladding, and
structural defects.
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Environmental (including nuclear) issues.
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Professional negligence.
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Delay and programming issues and disruption and delay costs.
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Interim and final account valuation.
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International disputes, including ICC arbitration.
Peter has also mediated disputes outside the
construction sector, including in regard to wills, landlord and tenant,
sale of goods, and passing off and is identified in the Bar Council list
of mediators under the most experienced category.
Peter has served on committees concerned with
arbitration, mediation and adjudication. He was one of the drafters of
the Construction Industry Model Arbitration Rules and was involved in
consultations with the Government on the Scheme for Construction
Contracts. He is a member of the ICC Commission Task Force on Reducing
Time/Costs in complex arbitrations. He speaks on arbitration,
international arbitration, and adjudication for organisations such as
BPP Professional Education and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
He is a visiting senior lecturer at Kings College, London and course
director for the dispute resolution module of the MSc in Construction
Law and arbitration.
Peter is an arbitrator member of the
Society of Construction
Arbitrators, a member of the
Major Projects Adjudication
Group and a member of the
Swiss Arbitration Association. His web site at
www.aeberli.com, includes a number
of papers and articles on arbitration, adjudication and construction
law.
Updated February 2008
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