Laura Hussey

Recent work includes:

• Junior counsel in a circa £45m multi-party TCC dispute, concerning the construction of a large luxury London residential development and in particular regarding its façade and fire-stopping and fire compartmentation measures.
• Junior counsel in a circa £35m multi-party TCC dispute concerning the design, procurement and construction of a UK abattoir including complex technical issues in relation to the abattoir processing systems. Listed in The Lawyer as one of the top 20 cases of 2021.
• Sole junior counsel acting for a developer in a circa £30m final account dispute concerning the construction of a Premier League football stadium.
• Junior counsel in a circa £23m six-party TCC dispute concerning the design and construction of a high-rise mixed-use development and in particular concerning alleged defective cladding and other fire safety defects.
• Sole counsel in a multi-million pound TCC dispute concerning the design and construction of a high-rise residential building and in particular concerning issues with water ingress and an external wall insulation system.
• Sole counsel in a multi-million pound TCC dispute concerning the design of student residences and in particular concerning fire safety defects and defective cladding.
• Junior counsel in a dispute concerning a large urban tunneling infrastructure project and in particular noise levels and noise mitigation measures.
• Acting for a developer in a TCC dispute and mediation concerning the residential development of 26 plots of land in a dispute over whether and, if so on what terms, a contract had been concluded between the parties including issues with limitation.
• Acting for an employer in a dispute concerning recovery of sums where the contractor had abandoned site.
• Acting for an I.T. provider, including on various interim applications, in a claim concerning variations and unpaid invoices.
• Advising an employer in a dispute with a main contractor over allegations of failure to make regular and diligent progress and claims under a performance bond.
• Advising on whether a maintenance contractor could make a retrospective claim for price adjustments for inflation pursuant to a NHF Form of Contract.
• Advising a contractor as to whether or not, in the factual circumstances, the employer was entitled to withhold liquidated damages.
• Advising a main contractor on S.32 of the Limitation Act and the meaning of ‘deliberate concealment’.
• Advising a leading infrastructure company on the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.

Recent work includes:

• Sole junior counsel in a circa US$110m (with circa US$220m in counterclaims) arbitration seated in New York and with the substantive law being that of the State of New York (ICC Rules) in a dispute concerning the construction of floating production, storage and offloading oil platforms with issues including extensions of time, variations and Brazilian tax law. Responsible principally for part of the case pleaded at circa US$38m and US$9m in counterclaims.
• Sole junior counsel acting for an EPC Contractor in a circa COP120billion (with circa COP203billion in counterclaims) arbitration seated in USA and with the substantive law being that of Colombia (ICC Rules) in a dispute concerning the design and construction of an extensive toll road system in Colombia.
• Sole junior counsel acting for an employer in a circa AED380m arbitration (with AED70m in counterclaims) in Dubai (DIAC rules) in a dispute concerning the construction of a large residential and commercial complex with issues including delay, variations, extensions of time, bonds and guarantees.
• Junior counsel in an ultra-high value ICC arbitration (foreign law, foreign seat) in a dispute concerning the design and construction of a major metro system in the Middle East with issues including extensions of time, termination and variations.
• Junior counsel on behalf of an international architectural and project management firm in an ultra high value arbitration concerning the design and construction of major airports in the Middle East.
• Sole counsel in relation to a US$6m ICC arbitration, seated in Dubai, concerning the construction of seawater pipelines in the Middle East with issues including unlawful termination, delay and bonds.
• Assisting as junior counsel in the end stages of an arbitration (DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Rules) seated in the Dubai International Financial Centre and with the substantive law being the laws of Abu Dhabi concerning the supply, installation and commissioning of MEP services for a mall in Abu Dhabi.
• Advising on sub-contracts in respect of significant oil and gas projects in Saudi Arabia. In particular, the contractual interpretation of a waiver provision and whether or not it would exclude or limit claims for prolongation and disruption under the contract, and, if it did, whether or not in the complex factual circumstances it could be overcome.

Recent work includes:

• Sole junior counsel acting for a project and costs manager in a domestic arbitration, including several contested procedural issues, concerning the design and construction of a large central London hotel with the primary matters in dispute including allegations of overpayment, defective construction and delay.
• Sole junior counsel in a large multi-party TCC dispute concerning the design and installation of the brickwork façade of a university building.
• Sole junior counsel in a multi-party TCC dispute concerning the acoustic design of a large mixed use property.
• Sole counsel, on behalf of an employer, in a £1.2m TCC dispute against a multi-disciplinary firm (including architects, project managers and craftsmen managed by a construction director) concerning defects in the basement construction of a large, luxury, central London residence.
• Acting, on behalf of an architect, in a multi-party dispute concerning whether the design of a block of flats permitted a fire to spread.
• Sole junior counsel in a dispute concerning the development of a London Grade II listed townhouse with issues including the suspension of works, unlawful termination and the contractual interpretation of clauses within a JCT 2016 Standard Building Contract.
• Acting in a multi-party dispute, including interim applications, concerning the installation of underground electrical cables with issues including the interpretation of indemnity clauses.
• Advising a football club on Section 13 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act and the duty to warn and whether, in the circumstances, there had been a breach by the contractor.
• Advising on a seven-party claim regarding the design and construction of advertising signs including technically complex defective structural engineering work and latent defects along with legal issues such as limitation and the terms of various oral contracts.

Recent work includes:

• Sole counsel acting for a recycling and waste processing company in a circa £6m adjudication brought by a global EPC contractor concerning an IChemE Form of Contract and the design and construction of a piling platform.
• Sole junior counsel acting for the owner and super-prime developer of a luxury hotel and residential apartments in London, in seven simultaneous adjudications against a construction and interior fit-out contractor and a construction contractor. The issues in dispute included extensions of time, liquidated damages and true value accounts.
• Sole counsel acting for a developer in two adjudications concerning the design and construction of a Premier League football stadium where the issues in dispute concerned whether or not various MEP works were variations under the contract or not, and, if they were, the true value of such.
• Sole counsel acting for a well-known actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist in an adjudication against an employer’s agent concerning the overpayment of construction works for the redevelopment of an estate.
• Sole counsel acting for an engineering and construction company in an adjudication concerning the design and construction of a new ferry terminal and linkspan with complex engineering issues.
• Sole counsel acting for an employer in an adjudication concerning a contract for the design and installation of cladding to a large residential complex where the issue in dispute was whether the contract included for the supply and installation of the backing wall structure to the glass reinforced concrete or whether this was a variation and, if a variation, the true value of such.
• Sole counsel acting for an employer in a smash-and-grab adjudication brought by an architectural firm where the circumstances included an alleged repudiatory breach of contract.
• Sole counsel acting for the responding party in a smash-and-grab adjudication concerning an NEC4 Term Service Short Contract for the provision of civil engineering services where an important matter in dispute was the manner in which the contract had been terminated.
• Sole counsel acting for the contractor against a sub-contractor in a smash-and grab adjudication concerning a NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract for the construction of a new road and connections.

2015: Princess Royal Scholarship, Inner Temple.

2015-2016: BPTC, City Law School.

2014-2015: Graduate Diploma in Law, City Law School.

2002-2006:  University of Washington Dean’s List Scholar for high academic merit.

2002-2006: Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science, University of Washington, USA (Double First Class equivalent)

‘In search of the fraud exception’ TECBAR Review, Autumn 2018.

Laura is a member of the SCL, TECBAR and COMBAR.

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