Ms Victoria Russell > Fenwick Elliott LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Ms Victoria Russell

+44 20 7421 1986 vrussell@fenwickelliott.com View profile

Work Department

Construction and energy

Position

Victoria is a consultant with over 30 years’ experience; Victoria specialises in construction and engineering law. Victoria’s contentious work focuses on litigation, arbitration and adjudication claims for a wide range of clients including developers, universities, schools, main contractors, local authorities and trade associations. She is a Technology and Construction Solicitors’ Association-registered adjudicator and also a member of the adjudicator panels of the Chartered Institute of Building and the Construction Confederation. She is a Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR)-accredited mediator with extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution. She has dealt with issues on projects ranging from offices and motorways to hospitals, laboratories, housing developments, airports, factories, waste to energy plants and power stations in the UK and overseas. Several of her cases in the High Court and in the Court of Appeal have been reported. Victoria is experienced in all principle building and engineering contracts, including JCT, ICE, NEC, GC/Works and FIDIC. She also drafts and negotiates professional appointments and bespoke forms of domestic and international construction contract, including facilities management and service agreements, and advises on the disclosure and management of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Victoria lectures at conferences in the UK and overseas and has contributed to LNTV and Einstein training videos.

Career

Partner Fenwick Elliott 2000; partner Freedmans 1985; qualified 1981; trained Blyth Dutton.

Victoria has written numerous articles on construction, arbitration, adjudication and alternative dispute resolution.

Languages

English, conversational German

Memberships

• fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators;
• fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building;
• fellow of the Forum of the Built Environment;
• past chairman of the Society of Construction Law;
• past president of the European Society of Construction Law;
• first female master of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators;
• past master of the Worshipful Company of Constructors;
• member of the International Bar Association;
• member of the London Court of International Arbitration;
• member of the Law Society’s panel of arbitrators;
• non-executive director of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Education

Benenden School, Kent; Exeter University (1977 LLB).

Leisure

Volunteer with the West London Churches Homeless Concern; management committee member of the Sulgrave Youth Club in Shepherd’s Bush, London.