Profile
PETER AEBERLI MA, BA Dip Arch, Dip ICArb, RIBA, ARIAS, ACE, FCIArb, Barrister, Chartered Arbitrator, Adjudicator, Registered CEDR Mediator.
| Nationality | Canadian of Swiss descent. Resident in the United Kingdom |
| Address (business) | 3 Paper Buildings London EC4Y 7EU United Kingdom |
| Tel. Number (business) | +44 (0) 207 583 8055 |
| Fax Number (business) | +44 (0) 207 353 6271 |
| E-mail Address | |
| Web site | www.aeberli.com |
Professional Qualifications
Chartered Architect (RIBA and ARIAS)
Barrister at law - Middle Temple
Fellow of the Chartered Instituted of Arbitrators and Chartered Arbitrator
Registered CEDR Mediator
Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration
Work as counsel
Work as counsel includes advising on and appear principally on construction and arbitration related matters in the Technology and Court Court (TCC) and the County Courts, has also appeared in the Court of Appeal (TWF Printers Ltd v. Interserve Project Services [2006] BLR 299). Receives in instructions to draft contractual documentation including amendments to JCT contracts. Advises and represents parties in arbitration, adjudication and mediation proceedings.
Overseas work has included advising parties in Latvia and in South Africa on contractual (FIDIC) and arbitration matters.
Dispute Resolution Experience
Experienced arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator receiving appointments by party agreement and third parties from bodies such as the ICC, FIDIC, the CIArb, RICS and RIBA.
Arbitrator on in excess of 40 construction disputes in both two party and multi-party matters.
Adjudicator on excess of 70 construction disputes. Mediator on in excess of 40 construction and other disputes involving both two and multi parties. Disputes on which Peter has been appointed, have involved:
- Legal issues.
- Development agreements.
- Technical issues, such as alleged paint, roofing, cladding, mechanical and electrical and structural defects.
- Environmental (including nuclear) issues.
- Professional negligence.
- Delay and programming issues and disruption and delay costs.
- Interim and final account valuation.
- Commercial agency agreements
- International commercial disputes, including ICC arbitration and FIDIC dispute board.
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.
Panel Listings
LCIA, CIArb (including NHBC), Engineers’ Ireland, Law Society, RIBA and CIOB panels of arbitrators.
CIArb, RIBA RICS, CIOB and Bar Council panels of mediators.
CIArb, RIBA, RICS, ICE, CEDR, Construction Confederation, Construction Industry Council, Association of Independent Construction Adjudicators and CIOB panels of adjudicators.
ICC Canadian National Committee Panel of International Commercial Arbitrators.
ICDR (American Arbitration Association) roster of international arbitrators
International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) Roster of arbitrators and mediators.
FIDIC President’s List of Dispute Adjudicators.
Named or listed as an adjudicator in respect of a number of high value and prestigious contracts, including the London 2012 Adjudication Panel and the T5 (Terminal 5) panel of adjudicators.
Professional Memberships and official positions held
RIBA, RIAS, ACE, FCIArb, Barrister
Visiting senior lecturer at Kings College Centre of Construction Law and Management; course director for Module D of the MSc Course – Arbitration and dispute resolution module.
Joint Secretary of the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT): 1995 to 1998.
Cases editor on the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Law Journal: 1994 to 2000
Member of the drafting committee for the Construction Industry Model Arbitration Rules (CIMAR)
Member of the ICC Task Force on Reducing Costs in Complex Arbitrations. Member of the IC Commission on Arbitration
Worshipful Company of Arbitrators (liveryman).
General Availability
Principally Europe, including former Warsaw pact countries.
Background and Career summary
Prior to reading law as a scholar at Hertford College, Oxford in the late 1980s, worked with a multi-disciplinary consultancy as a project architect on medium and large developments including hospitals, schools, housing, offices and structures for the Ministry of Defence.
| 1978-1987: | Architect, principally with Building Design Partnership, but for a period as a Lecturer in Architecture at Edinburgh University in design and building construction. |
| 1987-1989: | Hertford College, Oxford, Scholar, Gibbs Prize, proxime assessit. Also during this time and for a year or so after, a part time lecturer in building construction at Oxford Polytechnic, now Oxford Brooks University. |
| 1989-1991: | Bar school and pupillage, including at Atkin Chambers, London. |
| Since 1991: | In private practice as a barrister, arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator. Notable projects in this period have included port facilities in Ghana; replacement of sewers; remediation of nuclear contamination; hotels and office complexes. |
Language Capability
English (mother tongue)