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Arthur Graham-Dixon is an experienced trial advocate specialising in highly technical, high-stakes international disputes within Chambers’ core areas of practice (construction, engineering, infrastructure, energy, technology, and professional negligence), across a broad range of industries (from power plants to airports to abattoirs).
He has particular recent experience of acting in trials where contracts have been terminated by an employer mid-construction.
Over the past few years, Arthur has acted in:
Arthur also has a lively domestic practice, both led and unled. His reported cases can be found in ‘Notable Cases’ below. Examples as sole counsel include Meadowside Building Developments Ltd [2019] EWHC 2651 (Technology and Construction Court), in which the other side’s adjudication-enforcement claim was refused on an unprecedented basis (the scope for an abuse of process due to a champertous / illegitimate funding agreement). Meadowside is also a significant and widely published case on the impact of insolvency on the enforceability of adjudication decisions, which was cited with approval by the Supreme Court in Bresco.
University of Manchester v John McAslan and Partners Ltd [2023] T.C.L.R. 2 | 205 Con. L.R. 56 | [2022] Costs L.R. 1607 (judgment on disclosure of expert-related material)
Meadowside Building Developments Ltd (in liquidation) v 12-18 Hill Street Management Company Ltd [2019] EWHC 2651 (TCC); [2020] Bus. L.R. 917; [2020] B.L.R. 65; (2019) 186 Con. L.R. 148
Indigo Projects London Ltd v Razin & Anor [2019] EWHC 1205 (TCC); [2019] Bus. L.R. 1957; [2019] B.L.R. 454; (2019) 184 Con. L.R. 251; [2019] B.P.I.R. 861 (acting as sole counsel)
Arthur is a member of TECBAR, COMBAR and the Society of Construction Law.
2016-2017
2015-2016
2011-2015
“Arthur is an exceptional construction junior. His ability to synthesise a significant factual record in a short timeframe, provide accurate and commercially informed advice, and to produce very high quality written work, is impressive.”
Construction, The Legal 500 2025
“Arthur is very user-friendly and easy to work with and was a real value add to the team. He has an incredible ability to get to grips and understand highly scientific and technical material and analyse this from a legal perspective and then distil his thoughts into easy-to-follow written advice.”
Construction, The Legal 500 2024
Yesterday, Lord Briggs delivered a unanimous judgment in the Supreme Court case of Bresco Electrical…
Regarded as a leading textbook on all aspects of the law relating to infrastructure and…
In Meadowside Building Developments Ltd (in liquidation) v 12-18 Hill Street Management Company Ltd [2019]…
In Indigo Projects London Ltd v Razin & Or [2019] EWHC 1205 (TCC) Arthur Graham-Dixon…
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