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James Cross, QC – read law at Magdalen College, Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1985. He was appointed a QC in 2006 having ‘proved himself to be “absolutely first class”’ (Chambers UK, 2007). James has an extensive and wide-ranging commercial practice with particular expertise in professional negligence (especially construction industry professionals), construction and engineering, insurance and product liability. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Andrew Fraser-Urquhart, MA (Cantab) – called to the Bar in 1993, having previously been employed by the Bank of England. He practises from 4 – 5 Gray’s Inn Square where he specialises in Town and Country Planning, Local Government and Judicial Review. He has extensive experience in both of planning inquiries and Local Plan work. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Clive Thorne – Partner and head of the Intellectual Property Group at Arnold and Porter’s London office. Co-author of A User’s Guide to Copyright and A User’s Guide to Design Law. He studied law at Cambridge and was admitted as a solicitor in 1977. He is also admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong and as a Barrister and Solicitor in Australia. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

James Strachan, MA (Oxon) – a Barrister at Law practising from 4 – 5 Gray’s Inn Square, London, specialising in public and administrative law, planning and environment, local government, human rights and privacy. He was appointed to the A Panel of the Attorney General’s Counsel to the Crown in 2008 and the Welsh Assembly’s Government Panel of Counsel in 2009. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Melanie Willems, LLB (Hons), MSc Construction Law and Arbitration – the head of International Arbitration at Howrey LLP, a Washington DC-based US firm. Melanie works from the London office, and her focus includes contentious construction and energy matters, both domestically and internationally. Her experience includes UK dispute resolution, international and domestic arbitration, and all forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution, including mediation and expert determination. She publishes and speaks regularly on professional topics. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Graham Brown, ARB, RIBA, FCIArb – Architect, Arbitrator, Adjudicator and Mediator specialising in design, construction, and contract management and in construction industry disputes. Visiting lecturer at schools of architecture in the UK and overseas. Part 3 Examiner for Architects Registration Board and Architectural Association. Formerly director of Tindall Brown Architecture and Principal Lecturer in Law and Management and Director of Professional Training at Portsmouth School of Architecture. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Ruth Downing – until September 2008 a Barrister in Devereux Chambers, a leading set of employment lawyers, now a Circuit Judge at Croydon Crown Court. After reading law at Cambridge between 1974 and 1977 she was called to the Bar at Grays’ Inn and practised in both criminal and civil work before concentrating on employment law. She was a member of the Treasury Panel for employment work, specialising in discrimination cases. She appeared in a number of leading cases in disability and sex discrimination and latterly in a number of ‘whistleblowing’ cases. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Sarah Lupton, MA, DipArch, LLM, RIBA, FCIArb – a partner in Lupton Stellakis and Reader in professional studies at Cardiff University. Lectures widely on subjects relating to construction law, and acts as adjudicator and expert witness in construction disputes. She is a member of a large number of industry and professional committees, and is also an elected member of the Architects Registration Board. Sarah is the author of many books, including a series on standard form building contracts, and is the editor of Which Contract? and The Architect’s Handbook of Practice Management. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Peter Anderson, LLB (Hons), currently Senior Litigation Partner at Simpson & Marwick, Ediburgh. In 1992 became a Solicitor-Advocate and in 2002 a Fellow of Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. In 1991 was appointed Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland Legal Adviser. In 1994, he became a Tribunal Judge for Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeal Panel and Board; 2002 was appointed Chairman, Disciplinary Tribunal, Institute of Chartered Accounts and in 2003 was appointed judge in sheriff courts, Scotland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Sarah Lupton, MA, DipArch, LLM, RIBA, FCIArb – a partner in Lupton Stellakis and Reader in professional studies at Cardiff University. Lectures widely on subjects relating to construction law, and acts as adjudicator and expert witness in construction disputes. She is a member of a large number of industry and professional committees, and is also an elected member of the Architects Registration Board. Sarah is the author of many books, including a series on standard form building contracts, and is the editor of Which Contract? and The Architect’s Handbook of Practice Management. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Martin Edwards, BSc(Hons)Arch, DipArch, RIBA, AAE, MIFireE – a Chartered Architect with 30 years’ experience of private and public architectural practice, designing and administering hotel, office, exhibition, transportation, transmitting, industrial and housing projects. Principal in private practice 1992 – 2001. He joined Probyn Miers in 2003, contributing to expert reports on construction disputes up to £80 million. He has taken appointments as architect expert since 2005, specialising in fire safety issues. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Murray Armes, BA(Hons), DipArch, MA, MSc(Constr Law), RIBA, FCIArb – a Chartered Architect, adjudicator, expert witness and CEDR accredited mediator and a director of Probyn Miers Limited. He undertakes architectural consultancy in dispute resolution as an expert witness and adjudicator. He is on the adjudication panels of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal Institute of British Architects and is the Country Representative of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.