Contracts working party
The Forms of contract suite is produced by a committee of senior practitioners with many years of hands on experience in all areas of the international process industries, including operations and management, contracting, consultancy and construction law.
Gordon Bateman (chairman)
Gordon is a lecturer and consultant in private practice. He was previously with Thames Water where he was the in-house specialist on contract law and engineering and construction contracts, drafting contracts for major overseas projects and consultancy work and advising the various utility businesses within the Thames Water Group on contractual and procurement matters. He is also a member of the disputes resolution panel and is listed as an adjudicator.
Paul Buckingham
Paul is a Chartered chemical engineer and barrister who specialises in the litigation, arbitration and adjudication of construction and engineering disputes, particularly those arising in the energy sector. After seven years at the international law firm Clifford Chance, he has recently returned to independent practice at Keating Chambers.
Roger Button
Roger is a senior partner in the firm of Shadbolt & Co., solicitors where he specialises in both the preparation and negotiation of construction and engineering contracts as well as claims resolution.
John Challenger
John is currently Divisional Director of the Nuclear & Process Division of Mott MacDonald. He is a member of Mott MacDonald's Industrial and Nuclear Task Force groups with particular responsibility for the coordination of Clean Industry and Science Sector projects. He has extensive experience in industry in the fields of project management, process and mechanical design, general management and marketing. John has acted as an arbitrator or expert in a number of disputes and sat for over 20 years as a member of the contracts working party.
Geoffrey Hawker
Geoffrey is a chartered civil engineer and barrister specialising in dispute resolution within the construction industry and commerce generally, both in the UK and overseas. He has long been involved in drafting the various ICE conditions of contract and of the related disputes procedures, together with similar involvement in Ireland and internationally through FIDIC. He has for some years sat on the IChemE contracts working party as legal advisor.
Chris Hillier
Chris is a Director at Gardiner & Theobald Fairway and is responsible for dispute resolution services on engineering and construction contracts globally, having previously worked for many years as project manager in the contracting industry. He is a chartered engineer and member of the Institution of Gas Engineers, Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Institution of Engineering and Technology and has a Masters in Construction Law and Arbitration from Kings College.
David McLurgh
David is General Counsel at Foster Wheeler Energy Limited responsible for all legal services. He is a Chartered chemical engineer and a solicitor.
Jon Shattock
Jon is Vice President, Legal Services at Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., responsible for all legal services outside North America. He is a solicitor and a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Ray Shaw
Ray works for Shaw Energy & Chemicals Ltd (previously Stone & Webster). He is a chartered engineer with many years experience in technology, engineering and construction for the process and power industries. The manager of contracts in England for the Energy and Chemicals division of Shaw Stone & Webster Ray provides commercial and contractual advice within the division for its international business.
Iain Turner
Iain is the Commercial Manager of WSP CEL Ltd, a major process contractor. With a BSc in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, and a background in the process industries, he had extensive experience of design and project management before gaining experience of tendering, sales and marketing. In his current role, he has responsibility for all procurement functions, provision of commercial and contractual advice and the drafting, reviewing and negotiation of contracts.
Jim Williams
Jim is a non-practising barrister, who has worked for thirty years in the process engineering and construction industry (Costain Oil, Gas & Process Ltd) drafting contracts and resolving disputes and commercial problems. He is a fellow of the Indian Society of Arbitrators as well as FCIArb.