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Simon Tolson
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Work Department
Construction.
Position
Senior partner at Fenwick Elliot since 2002, professional career has been devoted to specialising in construction law and the disputes generated by the industry, has prepared and conducted cases at senior level since the late 1980s, including 14 reported decisions.
Career
Trained Cozens & Moxon Solicitors; qualified 1987; assistant solicitor Fenwick Elliot 1987; partner 1989; senior partner 2002. Simon has specialised in construction and engineering law and the disputes generated by the industry for most of his professional career. He has prepared and conducted many cases at senior level for over 19 years, including 14 reported decisions in the High Court and Court of Appeal. Simon is a recognised authority on dispute resolution and has acted in well over 120 adjudications, seven of which have been reported. Simon is an accredited adjudicator with the TeCSA, RICS, ICE, CIC and CIOB panels. Between 1998-99 Simon was also on the Faculty Training Board of the CIOB training adjudicators. Simon has lectured extensively for most of the major conference symposia, as well as universities such as Cambridge, Aston, Ulster, Loughborough and Reading, the Television Education Network/Einstein, the RICS, Arbrix, SCL, ICES, and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Wrote the contract module for King's College Construction Law, Litigation and Regulation distance learning course; contributed to numerous other legal and construction journals; and is past member of the editorial board for the CLT Journal E&CLJ.
Member
Chartered arbitrator and fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 1995; fellow, Faculty of Building which in 1995 awarded him the Gordon Tomalin prize; liveryman, Worshipful Company of Constructors; liveryman, Worshipful Company of Arbitrators; membership secretary, Technology and Construction Solicitors' Association (sub-committee chair of its technical course); founder associate member, Planning Engineers Organisation; Dispute Resolution Board Foundation.
Education
Strode's College, Egham; Hatfield (University of Hertfordshire); College of Law, Guildford.
Leisure
Cycling, petrol head, family and travel.
Practice Areas
Arbitration, ADR, mediation; Construction - contentious; Litigation - commercial
