Peter Aeberli

Peter D Aeberli

Barrister - Arbitrator - Mediator - Adjudicator

Chambers of Michael Parroy QC

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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) Chambers of Tim Lamb QC
3 Paper Buildings
London
EC47 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

Dispute Resolution Experience

Experienced arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator receiving appointments by party agreement and third party nomination.

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.
  • International commercial 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.

Panel Listings

LCIA, CIArb, Engineers’ Ireland, Law Society, RIBA and CIOB panels of arbitrators.

CIArb, RIBA RICS, CIOB and Bar Council panels of mediators.

CIArb (including NHBC), RIBA, ICE, 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 Construction (USA) 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.

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 on which involved 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)

Publications

Various published articles, many of which can be found re-printed at www.aeberli.com.

Speaker at seminars and conferences on various topics concerned with construction law and dispute resolution.

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