A modern firm with classic values. Based in Sussex and London.
A modern firm with classic values.
Based in Sussex and London.
WHO WE ARE
Webb Berkeley Law is a multi-disciplinary construction and commercial law consultancy providing dedicated expertise by both legal consultants and surveyors. We advise on every aspect of the construction process from inception to completion and operation. We specialise in dispute resolution (ADR) and dispute avoidance. We also have extensive experience in all types of commercial disputes. We are not solicitors and do not conduct litigation, which is expensive and should be the last resort.
The practice is headed by Nicholas Webb (legal consultant). We are renowned for the range and quality of our dispute resolution expertise, providing strategic guidance from both a legal and technical perspective.
Our comprehensive understanding of the construction industry, together with strong commercial awareness, enables us to provide expert and proactive advice to our clients. We have long-established relationships with numerous firms of solicitors and specialist barristers chambers, enabling us to access further expertise when necessary.
We provide city-quality advice that is supported by decades of industry experience. Our multi-disciplinary practice enables us to provide sophisticated and integrated solutions for our clients.
Kevin Woudman (consultant) is appointed as an independent arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator. Nicholas Webb is appointed as an independent mediator in all construction and commercial disputes.
WHO WE ARE
Webb Berkeley Law is a multi-disciplinary construction and commercial law consultancy providing dedicated expertise by both legal consultants and surveyors. We advise on every aspect of the construction process from inception to completion and operation. We specialise in dispute resolution (ADR) and dispute avoidance. We also have extensive experience in all types of commercial disputes. We are not solicitors and do not conduct litigation, which is expensive and should be the last resort.
The practice is headed by Nicholas Webb (legal consultant). We are renowned for the range and quality of our dispute resolution expertise, providing strategic guidance from both a legal and technical perspective.
Our comprehensive understanding of the construction industry, together with strong commercial awareness, enables us to provide expert and proactive advice to our clients. We have long-established relationships with numerous firms of solicitors and specialist barristers chambers, enabling us to access further expertise when necessary.
We provide city-quality advice that is supported by decades of industry experience. Our multi-disciplinary practice enables us to provide sophisticated and integrated solutions for our clients.
Kevin Woudman (consultant) is appointed as an independent arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator. Nicholas Webb is appointed as an independent mediator in all construction and commercial disputes.
WHAT WE DO
Webb Berkeley Law work hard to understand your business and fight to ensure that you achieve success.
We are renowned for the range and quality of our work. Our services include:
Claims management in construction (and commercial) dispute resolution, advising and representing both claimants and defendants, including insurance companies, on an individual or multi-disciplinary basis as necessary.
We advise employers, developers, contractors and sub-contractors on all construction disputes, including:
- Defective works and the implementation of remedial works
- Delay and disruption claims
- Interim and final account payment disputes
- Disputes in relation to variations and extras
- Disputes in relation to standard form and bespoke construction contracts
- Professional negligence
- Joint venture, partnership and shareholder disputes
We represent clients in all forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), including arbitration, adjudication and mediation, and acting as advocates at these tribunals where necessary.
We advise on all aspects of the construction process from inception through to completion and operation, including project support and procurement strategies.
We advise and represent both commercial landlords and tenants in commercial dilapidation and service charge disputes and representing residential managing agents in all aspects of block management issues and disputes.
We undertake building pathology, acquisition and due diligence surveys.
WHAT WE DO
Webb Berkeley Law work hard to understand your business and fight to ensure that you achieve success.
We are renowned for the range and quality of our work. Our services include:
Claims management in construction (and commercial) dispute resolution, advising and representing both claimants and defendants, including insurance companies, on an individual or multi-disciplinary basis as necessary.
We advise employers, developers, contractors and sub-contractors on all construction disputes, including:
- Defective works and the implementation of remedial works
- Interim and final account payment disputes
- Disputes in relation to variations and extras
- Disputes in relation to standard form and bespoke construction contracts
- Professional negligence
- Joint venture, partnership and shareholder disputes
We represent clients in all forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), including arbitration, adjudication and mediation, and acting as advocates at these tribunals where necessary.
We advise on all aspects of the construction process from inception through to completion and operation, including project support and procurement strategies.
We advise and represent both commercial landlords and tenants in commercial dilapidation and service charge disputes and representing residential managing agents in all aspects of block management issues and disputes.
We undertake building pathology, acquisition and due diligence surveys.
NICHOLAS WEBB
Over 35 years of commercial and construction dispute resolution experience, both within industry (major international construction company) and private practice.
Experience includes:
- Advising contractors and sub-contractors on interim and final account payment disputes, including disputes in relation to variation and extras.
- Advising employers and homeowners in relation to claims, including defective works and design liability.
- Advising on standard form construction contracts.
- Conducting and implementing Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the construction sector.
- Acting as in-house legal advisor to international construction company in regard to all aspects of construction law.
- Commercial negotiation and dispute resolution for all types of construction companies.
- Representing insolvency practitioners in construction disputes.
- Advising on general commercial matters, including shareholder and partnership disputes, and commercial negotiation and dispute resolution for corporate clients in all sectors.
- Advising and assisting domestic and international firms of general practice solicitors with contentious construction and commercial matters, including dispute resolution.
- Nick is a member of the Society of Construction Law.
Recent matters have included:
- Representing claimant (homeowner) in complicated building dispute involving issues in relation to design liability and defective implementation of design by contractor and specialist sub-contractor’s liability, settled by negotiation.
- Representing defendant (homeowner) in an alleged pre-contract misrepresentation in relation to a sale of a substantial residential property in London, settled by negotiation.
- Representing contractor in a complex variation and extras dispute, resolved at mediation.
- Advising contractor in allegations of defective workmanship and final payment dispute, resolved by direct negotiation.
- Representing hotel finance and development company in alleged breach of development and confidentiality contracts, settled by direct negotiation.
- Advising contractor and sub-contractor on execution of bespoke design and build contract.
- Representing defendant (international company) in a complex multi-jurisdiction court dispute, settled by direct negotiation with claimant’s international solicitors.
- Representing claimant in a residential barn conversion dispute, successfully concluded by mediation.
- Representing contractor in dispute over contractual value and retention (final payment) claims, successfully concluded by direct negotiation.
NICHOLAS WEBB
Over 35 years of commercial and construction dispute resolution experience, both within industry (major international construction company) and private practice.
Experience includes:
- Advising contractors and sub-contractors on interim and final account payment disputes, including disputes in relation to variation and extras.
- Advising employers and homeowners in relation to claims, including defective works and design liability.
- Advising on standard form construction contracts.
- Conducting and implementing Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the construction sector.
- Acting as in-house legal advisor to international construction company in regard to all aspects of construction law.
- Commercial negotiation and dispute resolution for all types of construction companies.
- Representing insolvency practitioners in construction disputes.
- Advising on general commercial matters, including shareholder and partnership disputes, and commercial negotiation and dispute resolution for corporate clients in all sectors.
- Advising and assisting domestic and international firms of general practice solicitors with contentious construction and commercial matters, including dispute resolution.
- Nick is a member of the Society of Construction Law.
Recent matters have included:
- Representing claimant (homeowner) in complicated building dispute involving issues in relation to design liability and defective implementation of design by contractor and specialist sub-contractor’s liability, settled by negotiation.
- Representing defendant (homeowner) in an alleged pre-contract misrepresentation in relation to a sale of a substantial residential property in London, settled by negotiation.
- Representing contractor in a complex variation and extras dispute, resolved at mediation.
- Advising contractor in allegations of defective workmanship and final payment dispute, resolved by direct negotiation.
- Representing hotel finance and development company in alleged breach of development and confidentiality contracts, settled by direct negotiation.
- Advising contractor and sub-contractor on execution of bespoke design and build contract.
- Representing defendant (international company) in a complex multi-jurisdiction court dispute, settled by direct negotiation with claimant’s international solicitors.
- Representing claimant in a residential barn conversion dispute, successfully concluded by mediation.
- Representing contractor in dispute over contractual value and retention (final payment) claims, successfully concluded by direct negotiation.
KEVIN WOUDMAN
Consultant
BSc.(Hons), Dip.Arb, FRICS, FCIArb, C.Arb
Kevin is a Chartered Building Surveyor and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is also a Chartered Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators with over 35 years’ experience.
Kevin specialises in commercial dilapidations, lease advisory and dispute resolution but also undertakes service charge disputes, building pathology, acquisition and due-diligence surveys, development monitoring and acting as Employer’s Agent.
Previously a member of the RICS Dispute Resolution Services Working Group and a former Chairman of the RICS Dispute Resolution UK World Region Professional Group Board. He is currently the only RICS member on the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Disciplinary Board.
Kevin is on the RICS panel of Independent Experts involved in determining leasehold dilapidations disputes. He has had a number of articles on service charge and leasehold dilapidations matters, as well as the use of various forms of ADR in determining landlord and tenant disputes ,published in various professional journals.
Co-author of both the 5th and 6th Editions of the RICS Dilapidations Guidance Note and also co-developed and wrote the RICS Dilapidations Scheme for the resolution of dilapidations disputes.
Lead author of the 2016 RICS Guidance Note on Independent Expert Determination.
Kevin is on the list of accredited expert witnesses held by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (EWAS) and has given evidence before the County Court and the Technology and Construction Division of the High Court on matters ranging from construction defects and building design to landlord and tenant disputes and professional negligence.
On the Experts Panel of two of the largest Professional Indemnity Insurers and undertake claims investigations and advise on the technical aspects of negligence claims made against chartered surveyors, in particular, claims relating to acquisition and due diligence surveys, building refurbishment and development monitoring.
Kevin is on the list of accredited mediators held by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and was on the RICS Working Group which produced the RICS Mediation Guidance Note (2014).
Recent Appointments:
- Acting as arbitrator in relation to a dispute over the recovery of substantial service charges claimed by a landlord on commercial premises in West London
- Instruction to act as Independent Expert to prepare a determination on a significant leasehold dilapidations dispute on the Isle of Man
- Acting as Expert Witness (on behalf of Insurers) in relation to a professional negligence claim made against a firm acting as Employer’s Agent
- Preparation of a dilapidations assessment on a large industrial estate in Leeds
- Preparation of a terminal schedule of dilapidations on a five storey office building in Brighton
- Preparation of a specification of works for the refurbishment of two adjoining warehouse buildings
KEVIN WOUDMAN
Consultant
BSc.(Hons), Dip.Arb, FRICS, FCIArb, C.Arb
Kevin is a Chartered Building Surveyor and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is also a Chartered Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators with over 35 years’ experience.
Kevin specialises in commercial dilapidations, lease advisory and dispute resolution but also undertakes service charge disputes, building pathology, acquisition and due-diligence surveys, development monitoring and acting as Employer’s Agent.
Previously a member of the RICS Dispute Resolution Services Working Group and a former Chairman of the RICS Dispute Resolution UK World Region Professional Group Board. He is currently the only RICS member on the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Disciplinary Board.
Kevin is on the RICS panel of Independent Experts involved in determining leasehold dilapidations disputes. He has had a number of articles on service charge and leasehold dilapidations matters, as well as the use of various forms of ADR in determining landlord and tenant disputes ,published in various professional journals.
Co-author of both the 5th and 6th Editions of the RICS Dilapidations Guidance Note and also co-developed and wrote the RICS Dilapidations Scheme for the resolution of dilapidations disputes.
Lead author of the 2016 RICS Guidance Note on Independent Expert Determination.
Kevin is on the list of accredited expert witnesses held by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (EWAS) and has given evidence before the County Court and the Technology and Construction Division of the High Court on matters ranging from construction defects and building design to landlord and tenant disputes and professional negligence.
On the Experts Panel of two of the largest Professional Indemnity Insurers and undertake claims investigations and advise on the technical aspects of negligence claims made against chartered surveyors, in particular, claims relating to acquisition and due diligence surveys, building refurbishment and development monitoring.
Kevin is on the list of accredited mediators held by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and was on the RICS Working Group which produced the RICS Mediation Guidance Note (2014).
Recent Appointments:
- Acting as arbitrator in relation to a dispute over the recovery of substantial service charges claimed by a landlord on commercial premises in West London
- Instruction to act as Independent Expert to prepare a determination on a significant leasehold dilapidations dispute on the Isle of Man
- Acting as Expert Witness (on behalf of Insurers) in relation to a professional negligence claim made against a firm acting as Employer’s Agent
- Preparation of a dilapidations assessment on a large industrial estate in Leeds
- Preparation of a terminal schedule of dilapidations on a five storey office building in Brighton
- Preparation of a specification of works for the refurbishment of two adjoining warehouse buildings