Olivia Anderson

Construction, Engineering & Infrastructure

Since becoming a tenant at Atkin Chambers, Olivia has worked on a wide range of construction and engineering disputes and drafted numerous pleadings and adjudication submissions. She is familiar with all standard forms as well as bespoke contracts. Recent experience includes:

• Managing a number of adjudications as sole counsel for both the referring and responding party, and drafting all necessary documentation. The adjudications she has led have involved among others, a true value dispute and dispute regarding allegations of defective design and/or workmanship.
• A number of successful applications for summary judgment and/or strike out on behalf of a major transport network in various county courts.
• Successfully representing a major transport network in the magistrates courts regarding a number of licencing appeals made against it.
• Attending to disclosure review in a major trial in respect of allegations of allegedly defective works.
• Drafting Particulars of Claim against a house-builder/developer regarding defective works.
• Drafting a Defence for a contractor, defending against allegations of defective workmanship.
• Drafting a letter before claim as regards fire safety defects – in particular defective cladding, in relation to a claim under the Building Safety Act 2022.
• Drafting an advice on limitation in the context of the Defective Premises Act 1972 and Building Safety Act 2022 in a claim against professional consultants and/or specialist cladding sub-contractors.
• Drafting a number of advices regarding fire safety issues, limitation and contribution proceedings in a prospective claim against a developer and/or contractor.
• Drafting Particulars of Claim on behalf of an employer in a fire safety defect claim arising out of defectively designed and constructed cladding works by a sub-contractor (during pupillage).
• Drafting Particulars of Claim alleging negligent design of a pipeline system by hydraulic engineers (during pupillage).
• Drafting a Request for Information, Defence, and associated Scott Schedule in a claim against an architect arising out of defective design and/or construction (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice on limitation, breach of contract and professional negligence in relation to the design and construction of student accommodation by a main contractor pursuant to a JCT Standard Form of Building Contract 1998 Edition (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice on the ability of a employer to challenge an engineer’s determination made under a bespoke FIDIC contract, in respect of ground condition assumptions (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice for an employer on compensation event issues in an amended NEC contract (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice on the contractual interpretation of clauses under an amended JCT Standard Build Contract (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice on time at large issues under a JCT Standard Build Contract (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice on limitation regarding allegedly defective works and an associated alleged breach of an indemnity provision in a construction contract (during pupillage).