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"Counsel and ourselves valued immensely Dr Jarratt's deep engagement with the Parties and creative approach to break deadlocks and produce the final settlement".
"Very pleased with Dr Al Jarratt's time and commitment and extra effort in unravelling a difficult situation which encountered further unexpected problems before a resolution could become possible".
"Counsel, solicitor and ourselves were most impressed by Dr Jarratt's excellent approach. A superb mediator producing the perfect settlement quickly and cost-effectively".
Dr Jarratt is a highly experienced commercial mediator, arbitrator, expert determiner, adjudicator and expert witness in the UK and internationally. He has over thirty years’ experience in these specialisms, sixteen accreditations and has written published work, given numerous talks and led workshops on dispute resolution. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Manager, Fellow of five professional institutions including the CIArb and a Member of two others.
He is on the major UK mediation panels such as the Barrister Group and many internationally such as the International Mediation Institute as a Certified Mediator and an Accredited Mentor. He has arbitrated and mediated over 1140 UK and international disputes since 1993 with a mediation success rate of 93%.
Dr Jarratt has mediated and arbitrated civil and structural engineering, architectural, quantum, MEP and other construction disputes including Final Accounts, interim monthly applications for payment, variations, retention money, contra charges and delay and disruption. Family disputes include custody and care of children, maintenance payments and arrangement, welfare, education, financial responsibilities and asset sharing, inheritance and care of the elderly. Other disputes include, intellectual property, wine production, agriculture, health, maritime, insurance, retail, finance, personal injury, employment, inheritance, estate management, misrepresentation, professional negligence, transport, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, telecommunications, IT and renewable energy.
Dr Jarratt’s arbitration appointments include sole arbitrator, tribunal member and presiding arbitrator. Arbitral seats include London and Dubai under their applicable governing laws. He has also advised project financiers, clients, employers, consultants, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and other stakeholders under the NEC forms of contract, FIDIC’s Red, Silver and Yellow books and various JCT and other types of contract.
He regularly invites LLM students, university lecturers and legal professionals to join his arbitration hearings and mediations as observers and supports them throughout the process. He has written papers on mediation. He is a past member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of Management, Procurement & Law journal and also on the CMI eastern board and a past chairman of the CIArb East Anglia branch. He has also refereed and reviewed books on arbitration and FIDIC and other forms of contract. Dr Jarratt is a Professional Reviewer, Professional Assessor, Peer Interviewer, Tutor, Examiner and Moderator for four professional institutions.
He regularly chairs and speaks at professional events and is a past speaker for the IStructE and the ICE and a regular one for the CIArb. He has run the mediation workshops at a past ICE's flagship Annual ADR Day. He was also a speaker on mediation as early as 1994 at the IStructE during their 75th anniversary celebrations alongside its President and two Past Presidents.
ATTRIBUTES AS MEDIATOR
- Highly accredited and experienced practising International Commercial Mediator.
- Hold the highest academic and professional qualifications with extensive work in the commercial sector including mediating by telephone, video links and ODR.
- Highly experienced in mediating construction, property, commercial and other disputes with a high success rate in mediated settlements, 93%.
RECENT ARBITRATIONS AND SETTLED MEDIATIONS
- Breach of a commercial contract by an international bank's client company, UAE
- Disputed vehicle fleet warranty between the manufacturers, dealer and client company
- Breaches in engineering and building works under the Amended FIDIC Red Book, Qatar
- Structural failures in a block of flats
- Non-payment for live advertising screens for a telecommunications company
- Family's wealth distribution, financial responsibilities, children education and welfare
- Transhipment cargo damage
- Medical negligence against a PCT Health Trust and a surgeon
- Building defects in council-let properties
- Negligence claim against terraced housing design consultants
- Non-payment of certified sums due in Qatar
- Disputed late remedial works and delayed advice
- Unfair Director's dismissal
- Infringement of a company's product Trade Mark
- Deficient review of offshore facilities design, procurement, construction and operation
- Defective premises dispute
- Damages for breach of covenants
- Disputed variations for infrastructure works under the FIDIC Gold Book in Botswana
- Breaches in a Commercial Tenancy Agreement
- Breaches of statutory duty by council
- Children's maintenance and regular payments arrangement
- Non-compliance with notified disrepair works
- Inadequate inspections by council for building defects
- Lack of general care and attention to properties
- M and E systems on a regional railway network
- Mis-use of demised reconstructed properties
- Changed specifications in a riverside building complex
- Deficient road drainage system design, installation and alignment
- Adverse pavement condition, maintenance and inspections in a town centre
- Disputed printing franchising rights of use
- Medical negligence against a Consultant Surgeon
- Personal injury in dock offloading
- Breaches of copyrights of a publication use
- Yacht purchase and non-payment of monthly instalments
- Damages against a local authority for personal injury
- Breaches in servicing contract by an IT company
- Damages against a utility provider for plant failure
- Failures in electrical upgrade of railway works
- Disputed footballer's grievances against club
- Breach of pay formula's terms in a footballer's Contract
- Operating shortcomings of oil storage in a gravity-based structure
- Infringement of using a company's name
- Onshore and offshore windfarms including jacket foundations
- Lack of river flood defences damaging two adjoining properties
FACILITATIVE: Extensive experience conducting mediations as facilitator; a highly successful approach to narrow the parties' differences and arrive at a settlement.
EVALUATIVE: Acts sensitively as an evaluative mediator where appropriate considering the parties' expressed interest in value judgement to deal with the matters in dispute.
TRANSFORMATIVE: Also mediates disputes on a transformative basis where this suits the parties' empowerment and the nature of the dispute.
UK AND INTERNATIONAL WORK
Agency, Agriculture, Airports, Art, Aviation and aerospace, Banking, Bankruptcy, Breach of Contract, Bridges, Buildings, Building Defects, Business, Charities' Constitution, Civil Engineering, Commercial, Commercial Contracts, Community, Construction, Construction Contracts, Construction Defects, Consultants' Fees, Consumer Contracts, Consumer Goods, Copyrights, Corporate, Dams, Delay Analysis, Design, Distribution & Licensing, Docks, Drainage, Dredging, Employer's Liability, Employment, Energy, Engineering, Engineering Contracts, Entertainment, Environment, Extension of Time, Family, Fashion, Financial Services, Franchising, Fraud, Government Harbours, Health & Safety, Healthcare, Hospitality, Human Rights, Inheritance, Insurance & Re-Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Commerce, Investment, IT, Life Insurance, Lock Gates, Manufacturing, Marine Engineering, Marine Vessel Purchase & Maintenance, Maritime, Media, Medicine, Mergers & Acquisitions, Natural Resources, Non-payment/Withholding of Monies, Patents, Personal Injury, Pharmaceutical, Planning, Private Health Insurance, Professional Negligence, Project Management, Property, Quality of Materials, Railways, Real Estate, Religion/Ethics, Roads, Sea Outfalls, Securities, Sewerage, Social, Sport, Structural Engineering, Tax, Technology & Science, Telecommunications, Tourism, Trademarks, Transportation, Travel, Trusts, Tunnels, Utilities, Waste Disposal, Water Structures, Water Supply, Water Systems, Wine Industry, Work Place, Yacht Purchase & Maintenance.
PRACTISING CERTIFIED INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL MEDIATOR
- Civil Mediation Council's Mediator
- Institution of Civil Engineers’ Mediator/Conciliator
- Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ Mediator
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Mediator
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ CDP Mediator
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Personal Injury Mediator
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ LB of Tower Hamlets' Mediator
- Construction Industry Council's Mediator
- Academy of Experts’ Qualified Dispute Resolver
- Academy of Experts' British Marine Federation's Mediator
- The Barrister Group’s Mediator
- International Chamber of Commerce’s Mediator
- International Mediation Institute's Mediator
- International Mediation Institute's Mentor
- Florence International Mediation Chamber's Mediator
- World Intellectual Property Organization's Mediator
- International Organisation for Migration's Mediator
- Benchmark International Mediation Centre's Mediator
- Association of Mediation Assessors, Trainers and Instructors
PRACTISING INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATOR AND ADJUDICATOR
- Practising International Arbitrator across different sectors and jurisdictions
- International Chamber of Commerce's Arbitrator
- Named Arbitrator in consulting engineers' Tender Terms
- Named Arbitrator on a national contractor's standard form of contract
- Practising Adjudicator
- Royal Institute of British Architects' Adjudicator
- Construction Industry Council's Adjudicator
- Highways Agency Adjudicator
- Named Adjudicator on a national contractor's standard form of contract
EXPERT DETERMINER/WITNESS
- Practising Expert Determiner and Expert Witness
- Member of the Academy of Experts
- Member of the Expert Witness Institute
- Past member of the Expert Witness Institute's Professional Bodies Advisory Group
- Vetted Expert on the UK Register of Expert Witnesses
- Sweet & Maxwell's Checked Expert
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & OFFICIAL POSITIONS
Chartered Engineer, Chartered Manager Eur Ing CEng CMngr FICE FCIHT FCMI FCIArb CMC Fellow MAE MEWI QDR Eur Ing
- Eur Ing - Holder of the European Engineer title
- CEng - Chartered Engineer
- CMngr - Chartered Manager
- FICE - Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
- FCIHT - Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation
- FCMI - Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute
- FCIArb - Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- CMC Fellow - Fellow of the Civil Mediation Council
- MAE - Member of the Academy of Experts
- MEWI - Founding Member of the Expert Witness Institute
- QDR - Qualified Dispute Resolver
- Past Vice Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, eastern region
- Past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, eastern region
- Past Member of the Chartered Management Institute’s Board, eastern region
- Past Member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of the international Management, Procurement & Law Journal
- Professional Reviewer, Professional Assessor for two chartered institutions
- Tutor, Examiner, Assessor, Moderator, Peer Interviewer for a chartered institution
- Moderator for a fourth professional institution
- Past member of the Expert Witness Institute’s Professional Bodies Advisory Group
- Vetted Expert on the UK Register of Expert Witnesses
- Checked Expert, Vetted Expert on Sweet & Maxwell’s Directory of Expert Witnesses
- Attended ADR events/meetings
- Academy of Experts' trained Mediator
- Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' trained Mediator
- Attended regional, national and international meetings/conferences on mediation
- Attended mediation and training talks/discussions on mediation practice
- Regularly read various publications and online resources: New Civil Engineer, Civil Engineering Proceedings, ICE eNewsletter, Management, Procurement & Law Journal incorporating Construction Law Quarterly, Transportation Professional, Professional Manager, Management Today, Chartered Management Institute's eNewsletter, Arbitration Journal, The Resolver, eSolver, The Expert and Dispute Resolver, The Academy of Experts’ Newsletters, Expert Witness Institute’s Journal, Expert Witness Institute’s Newsletters, Your Witness, IMI eNews, caselaw, online articles, solicitors’ newsletters, Modern Insurance Magazine, various updates, Institution of Civil Engineers, Chartered Management Institute and other webinars, justice.gov.uk etc
- Association of Mediation Assessors, Trainers and Instructors' Member
- Advised/trained aspiring mediators
- Advised/trained aspiring arbitrators
- Mentored pupils at my mediations
- Mentored pupils at my arbitration hearings
- Headed technical staff training including the contractual aspects of construction works
- Professional Reviewer, Professional Assessor, Tutor, Examiner, Peer Interviewer, Moderator for four professional institutions
- Trained aspiring arbitrators and mediators in real-life arbitration hearings and mediations including LLM students, aspiring certified members of the IMI and professional dispute resolution practitioners with detailed assistance and advice before the mediation and feedback afterwards
- Acted as Mediator and Mediation Judge for the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators
- Speaker/workshop leader/Chairman of webinars, surgeries, conferences and symposia on contracts and the avoidance and resolution of disputes
- Speaker/workshops leader at the Institution of Civil Engineers’ flagship Annual ADR Day
- Speaker/workshop leader at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ regional and national annual events
- Speaker/workshop leader at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ all-day flagship Annual Mediation Symposium
- Speaker at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' all-day Annual Surgery, East Anglia, on my experience as Mediator in regular mediations
- Speaker at the Association of Mediation Assessors, Trainers & Instructors' annual international conference
- Speaker launching mediation on the Institution of Structural Engineers’ 75th anniversary alongside its President and two Past Presidents
- Speaker on the live Midmorning programme on BBC Radio Humberside alongside an MP and Past President of the Freight Traffic Association
- Invited to appear as a sole morning advisor on the live Sky News television channel
- Monthly webinars chairman/speaker on various aspects of Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Speaker/workshop leader at conferences and symposia on contracts and the avoidance and resolution of disputes
- Speaker/workshops leader at the Institution of Civil Engineers’ all-day flagship Annual ADR Day
- Speaker/workshop leader at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ regional and national annual events
- Speaker at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ flagship all-day Annual Mediation Symposium
- Speaker at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' all-day Annual Surgery, East Anglia, on my experience as Mediator in my regular mediations
- Speaker at the Association of Mediation Assessors, Trainers & Instructors' two-day annual international conference
- Speaker launching mediation at the Institution of Structural Engineers’ 75th anniversary alongside two Past Presidents with the then President in the Chair
- Wrote papers on the settlement of disputes including Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Wrote papers/reviews on mediation insights in the bi-monthly international Management, Procurement & Law Journal
- Wrote a paper on cost-effective mediation in The Structural Engineer
- Wrote a paper on comparative mediations in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' Book of Proceedings
- Wrote a paper on successful mediations in the international Management, Procurement & Law Journal
- Examples of other papers and reviews written on mediation and contracts can be found at: https://doi.org/000000/mpal.000000, http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/toc/jmapl/current and https://doi.org/10.1680/jmapl.14.00016
- Refereed and reviewed books on arbitration and FIDIC and other forms of contract
- Past Member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of the international Management, Procurement & Law journal
- Featured individually in a main article on training of other professionals in The New Builder journal
- Featured on the topic of mediation in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' quarterly The Resolver publication
- Advised Individual Homes magazine on water supply infrastructure Advised Reader’s Digest publication on soil mechanics
- Advised/featured in the technical press and various periodicals including The New Builder, Ideal Homes and Reader’s Digest
1. Civil Mediation Council
2. The Institution of Civil Engineers
3. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
4. The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
5. The Construction Industry Council
6. The Academy of Experts
7. International Mediation Institute
8. Specialist codes for commercial mediations
1. Civil Mediation Council
2. The Institution of Civil Engineers
3. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
4. The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
5. The Construction Industry Council
6. The Academy of Experts
7. International Mediation Institute
8. Specialist codes for commercial mediations
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