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CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

MITRE HOUSE, 160 ALDERSGATE STREET, LONDON, EC1A 4DD, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7367 3000
Fax:
Fax 020 7367 2000
DX:
135316 BARBICAN 2
Web:
www.cms-cmck.com
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Victoria Peckett

Tel:
Work +44 20 7367 2544
Email:
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

Work Department

Construction team.

Position

Partner in the construction team in London and heads up the contract drafting side. She has advised a wide variety of institutional, and other employer, clients and contractors on the drafting and negotiation of contracts for a broad range of projects, both domestic and international. She has extensive experience of all the major forms of standard contract (eg JCT, ICE, NEC and FIDIC) and on preparing bespoke forms of contract when appropriate. She chairs the JCT drafting committee. On the dispute resolution side, Victoria has advised on a wide range of claims and disputes relating to many different types of construction and engineering contract, both in formal proceedings and during supply, construction and commissioning.

Career

Trained McKenna & Co; qualified 1994; assistant solicitor CMS Cameron McKenna 1994; partner 2002.

Member

Law Society; Society of Construction Law; TeCSA; City of London Law Society.

Education

Cheltenham Ladies College; St John’s College, Cambridge (1991 BA Law); College of Law, Guildford (1992 LSF).

Leisure

Pilates, tennis, cricket, reading and films.

Practice Areas

Construction - contentious; Construction - non-contentious

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CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

  • Access to justice: protective costs orders in planning challenges

    Third parties and competing developers have no rights of appeal to the Secretary of State against planning decisions. Disappointed applicants can appeal to the Secretary of State and can have the merits of the application reconsidered. The only remedy available to a disappointed third party is a challenge by way of judicial review in the High Court on a point of law. The sense of frustration and disempowerment this creates has not been helped by the increasing complexity of the planning process and the use of consultation to legitimise decisions that many perceive may already have been taken.
    - CMS Group

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