2005: An arbitrator

1993-2005: A judge of the Technology and Construction Court in London which is part of the High Court of Justice of England & Wales. As part of the work involved being a arbitrator, as well as exercising the supervisory jurisdiction of the English High Court over arbitrations he was appointed arbitrator in a number of major arbitrations concerning computer systems and construction contracts.

1963- 1993 A barrister and arbitrator specialising in construction work, both national and international. Appointed Queen's Counsel 1979.

1963 Called to the Bar (Inner Temple); Bencher of the Inner Temple, 1985; Chairman, Estates Committee and Member, Executive Committee 1987-1994.

Educated: Westminster School, London (1952-1957); Trinity College, Dublin, MA, LLB, (1958-1962)

Other appointments

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Member, UK Architects' Registration Board, 2001- ; Chairman 2003 - .

Hon Senior Visiting Fellow, Queen Mary College, University of London, 1986- . Member, School of International Arbitration, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary. Lecturer and examiner for LLM Course on International Construction Contracts and Arbitration. Supervisor and examiner for master's and doctor's degrees in University of London.

Writer of numerous papers on arbitration. Chairman, Review Body, Construction Industry Model Arbitration Rules. Member of the Commission on International Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce. Currently co-chairman of an ICC group on the writing of arbitral awards (report to be published late 2005). With Dr Nael Bunni joint leader of a Report on Construction Industry Arbitrations, 2001 (published in ICC Bulletin, Vol. 12. No 2, 2001; and The International Construction Law Review, October 2001). Also served on ICC working parties on Terms of Reference, Multi-Party Arbitration, Arbitration and Construction, and the Pre-Arbitral Referee Procedure (of which he was co-chairman).

Co-Editor-in-Chief of The International Construction Law Review since its foundation in 1984. Editor-in-Chief of the Building Law Reports from 1977 until 1993. Consultant Editor to Emden's Construction Law and to the Construction Law Service and the Technology and Construction Law Reports.

Founding member of the Society of Construction Law; President 1985-1988. Awarded President's Medal, 2004. Member of the European Society of Construction Law. An Honorary Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers, 1997, and of the Canadian College of Construction Law (2002) and of the Dispute Practitioners Society Inc (Melbourne, Australia).