The Academic Staff - King's College London
John Barber MA(Cantab) LLB CEng FICE FCIArb is a non-practising barrister, joined the Centre in 1992 as Michael Brown Lecturer; he is also Admissions Tutor and Deputy Director. He also practises as an independent consulting engineer, adjudicator and arbitrator. Publications include Quality Management in Construction — Contractual Aspects (CIRIA, 1992) and Building and Civil Engineering Claims in Perspective (3rd ed jointly, 1992).
Philip Britton LLB(Soton) BCL(Oxon) joined the Centre in 1998 as a part-time Lecturer, becoming its Director in September 1999. He previously taught in the School of Law at the University of Warwick (1970–1991) and was Production Director at Television Education Network (1991–1996), writing and producing video programmes for lawyers, civil engineers, chartered surveyors and accountants, including on construction topics. Between 1994 and 2001, he was part-time Associate Professor at the University of Lille 2 (France), teaching English law to French law students. He has taught regularly on the Indiana University/Lille 2 Summer Program in European Law; translated court documents from French for the International Court of Justice ( The Hague); done editorial work on law books for Butterworths Asia; and developed video and interactive training programmes in competition law for Coca-Cola Enterprises. He is Chief Examiner and Moderator for Paper IIIA for the Fellowship examinations of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; he has been on the Editorial Board of Construction & Engineering Law (2001–2002) and a co-opted member of the Council of the Society of Construction Law (2001–2003). He is joint series editor of the Centre’s publications (with Frances A Paterson) and contributed a chapter to both The Construction Act: Time for review (2000) and Limited Liability Partnerships: A guide for professionals (2001). From 2002 to 2005, he was also part-time Director of Professional Education at the law firm Farrer & Co. He has four times won the SCL’s annual Hudson Prize for an essay on a construction law topic.
Phillip Capper MA(Oxon) BA(Dunelm) became Visiting Professor of Construction Law in 1988, then in 2003 Nash Professor of Engineering Law in succession to John Uff. He is a partner in the international law firm, Lovells, whom he joined in 1999. Before that, he was a senior partner in Construction and Engineering, and Head of International Arbitration, at Masons. For several years, Phillip led a very large team of lawyers, French and English, for the consortium designing and constructing the Channel Tunnel. Phillip’s practice has specialised in international dispute resolution in engineering and construction, as adviser, advocate and as arbitrator. Before joining Masons in 1988 he was Chairman of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. He has been a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford for over 20 years. He was also a lecturer in law at the University of Durham. Phillip drafted the Adjudication and Disputes clauses of the New Engineering Contract 2nd edition. He was also retained by the ICE to draft and advise on the ICE disputes provisions for the 1996 UK legislation. For CIRIA, he wrote the legal risk management aspects of its report Risk for Construction: Preparation of a Client’s Guide (1996). The French Association of International Contractors (SEFI) engaged Phillip as an independent expert to write a critical evaluation of FIDIC’s test edition of its EPC Turnkey Silver Book. Phillip is a UK member of the ICC Commission on International Arbitration, which sits in Paris, and of the European Advisory Committee of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, based in New York. Phillip has specialised in contractual risk management for over 25 years, writing also on bonds and financing instruments. As Editor from its inception in 1983 until 1990, Phillip wrote the Construction Industry Law Letter. Recent publications include ‘Construction Industry Arbitrations’ in the 3rd edition of Sweet & Maxwell’s Handbook of Arbitration Practice. He is a former General Editor of Emden’s Construction Law.
Nicholas Gould BSc LLM FRICS MCIOB is a partner in the law firm Fenwick Elliott LLP. He worked in the construction industry for eight years, trained as a solicitor at Masons, was in the construction group at Forsters and then spent four years at the University of Westminster as Senior Lecturer, where he began the research that resulted in the co-authored book Dispute Resolution in the Construction Industry (1999). He is also a CEDR lead mediator, became Senior Research Fellow at the Centre in 1999 and Visiting Senior Lecturer in 2005.
The Academic Staff - NUS
Philip Chan PhD, LLM, LLB, DipEd (Lond), DipBldg (S’pore Poly), FSIArb. An Associate Professor of NUS, he is the Deputy Head (Finance & Admin) of the Department of Building, a co-director of the Centre for Project Management and Construction Law and the Programme Director of this programme. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Construction Law Review. He is also one of two general editors of the Asian International Arbitration Journal and is a practising lawyer and arbitrator. In the construction industry, he has worked in the Housing and Development Board’s (HDB) Contracts Section; QS consultant firms; and international Scottish and Japanese contracting companies. He was also a legal officer in HDB’s legal department and was practising law in Donaldson and Burkinshaw. He is the former Executive Director and Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. He is currently a Deputy President of the Strata Titles Boards. He is a Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and has acted as an arbitrator in an ICC arbitration. He continues to sit on the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) Contracts Committee which has been responsible for the amendments made to the SIA building contract and nominated sub-contract. He is also a member of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) Continuing Education Committee. He has been invited to give more than 140 public and in-house talks on subject matters relating to construction law and arbitration. He has co-authored several books, namely, Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore Volume 2 on Arbitration, Buildingand Construction (Original and 2003 Reissue editions); Construction Law Casebook (Volumes 1 & 2) and Public SectorStandard Conditions of Contract for Construction Works 1999: A Commentary (2000). He has completed writing of the second edition based on the 2005 edition of the PSSCOC. He has also written a book on his own, CommonwealthConstruction Cases: The Singapore Perspective (2002). His other book as a sole author is Casebook on Insolvency and the Construction Industry (2004). Several of his articles, both individually authored and co-authored, have been published in The International Construction LawReview.
Florence Yean Yng Ling PhD, MSc (International Construction Management), MRICS, MSISV, obtained her BSc (Building) (First Class Hons) degree from the National University of Singapore. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Building, National University of Singapore. She was a consultant quantity surveyor from 1987 to 1995 before turning to teaching and research activities at the National University of Singapore. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002. She teaches modules relating to construction management and economics, which focus on construction cost estimating, bidding strategies, cost planning, cost control and management. She was the director of the BSc (Building) full-time programme from 1999 to 2002 and is currently the director of the part-time undergraduate programme, and minor in project management programme. Her research interests include international construction, international project management, project performance and public private partnership. She has received the following teaching awards: Teaching Excellence Award (1999), Excellent Teacher Awards (2001, 2002, 2003) and Teaching Honours List (2002). She is an elected council member for the Quantity Surveying Divisional Council of the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers. She is currently a member of the Ministry of Manpower’s Workplace Safety and Health Construction Advisory Sub-Committee.
Other NUS Staff Members
Members of the full-time staff are complemented by a panel of adjunct teaching staff comprising lawyers and construction industry practitioners: Mr Michael Hwang, SC (His Excellency, Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Switzerland; sole proprietor of the law firm Michael Hwang; former Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore), Mr Philip Jeyaretnam, SC (Rodyk & Davidson; President of the Law Society of Singapore), Mr Chow Kok Fong (Chief Executive Officer, Changi Airports International Pte Ltd), Mr Richard Tan (Lee & Lee), Mr George Tan (TSMP Law Corporation), Mr Tan Liam Beng (Drew & Napier LLC) and Dr Colin Ong (Dr Colin Ong Legal Services, Brunei).
Other Contributors to Teaching
The programme in Singapore relies heavily, as does the programme in London, on practitioners (lawyers and others) making a contribution by taking responsibility for individual topics and visiting to teach them. This adds variety to the personnel teaching the programme and brings in a valuable practical viewpoint which enriches the programme. Such guest lecturers have no responsibility for testing students in the programme, though some of them also assist by supervising student dissertations.