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Dr Chern is a Barrister practising at Crown Office Chambers,
London. Additionally he is a Chartered Architect, Fellow of the
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow ...
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Dr Chern is a Barrister practising at Crown Office Chambers,
London. Additionally he is a Chartered Architect, Fellow of the
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow of the Dispute Board
Federation, Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator and
Adjudicator and holds the degrees of BArch (Honours) in
Architecture and Engineering and Juris Doctor. He has practised
since 1972 specifically in the areas of engineering and
construction disputes in the United Kingdom, the EU and
internationally. As an adjudicator he is on numerous appointing
bodies including the FIDIC President’s List of Approved
Adjudicators, The Dispute Board Federation (Geneva) Panel of
Approved Dispute Board Members, and the Institution of Civil
Engineers (ICE) Dispute Board panel. He has extensive experience in
civil and structural engineering design issues, supervision of
construction, contract management, construction insurance,
arbitration, mediation, adjudication and other methods of dispute
resolution. He has had over 580 engineering construction dispute
references and has served on over 100 dispute boards in that time,
acting as chairman on most occasions. He has over 40 years’
experience in arbitration, mediation and adjudication and has
handled complex international commercial and construction matters
in over 20 countries worldwide located in North and South America,
Europe, the Middle East, China, and Africa.
Dr Chern is a member of various panels, groups and committees both
in the United Kingdom and abroad including the FIDIC Adjudicators
Assessment Panel and the Dispute Board Federation Advisory Panel,
the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Dispute
Resolution Committee, the Association Suisse de L’Arbitrage, the
Civil Mediation Committee, the Society of Construction Arbitrators,
and the Association of Consulting Engineers, and he is a Fellow of
the Centre for International Legal Studies in Austria, Fellow of
the Dispute Board Federation (Geneva) and its Secretary, and
a sustaining member of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation in
the United States. Additionally he is a dispute board trainer for
both the FIDIC, the DBF, RICS, and International Chamber of
Commerce (ICC) rules and procedures.
In addition to this book, Dr Chern is the author of a large number
of papers and articles on dispute boards, construction disputes,
and mediation and is the author of International Commercial
Mediation and The Law Of Construction Disputes both
published by Informa Publishing London. Additionally he is the
co-author and subject editor for Emden’s Construction Law: ADR
and Dispute Boards published by Lexis Nexis Butterworths,
London.