Colin Jones > HCR Hewitsons > Cambridge, England > Lawyer Profile
HCR Hewitsons Offices
50-60 Station Road
CB1 2JH
England
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Colin Jones
Work Department
Management board and construction and procurement team.
Position
Managing Partner. Legal specialisation in construction and procurement law. Clients include: Marshalls Airport, Kings College, Trinity Hall College, Gonville & Caius College, European Molecular Biology Institute. Adviser to the British Institute of Interior Design and the Association of Consultant Architects. Acts for contractors, professionals, developer clients, manufacturers of construction products; providing advice in regard to contentious and non contentious matters. Member of Cambridge CleanTech, sits on the Procurement Reform Group of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Adviser to the Sports and Play Construction Association. Council member of the Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry and a member of the Cambridge Interact Club of property and construction professionals. Governor of St Mary’s School, Cambridge. Practice areas: construction – contentious; Construction – non-contentious.
Career
Trained Taylor Vinters; qualified 1993; partner Hewitsons 2000.
Memberships
Law Society; Society of Construction Law, Cambridge Interact Club.
Education
Norwich City College (1985); Hull University (1988 BA Hons Law); Guildford College of Law (1992).
Leisure
Golf, food, travel.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Real estate > Construction
(Leading individuals)HCR Hewitsons‘s practice frequently advises on large-scale developments, and projects procured via the public procurement regime. Practice head Colin Jones is a key adviser to developers, contractors, and consultants, manufacturers across the UK. Jones works closely with associate Sardeep Gill, with both handling the negotiation of construction contracts and settlements, as well as resolving disputes through litigation, adjudication, and arbitration. Gill recently led a team advising developers on multimillion-pound residential accommodation projects in Brighton and Haverhill.
West Midlands > Real estate > Construction
The construction and engineering team at Harrison Clark Rickerbys combines construction practitioners with chartered quantity surveyors, such as Keith Blizzard, who is a chartered surveyor and construction manager, and who leads the team alongside Cambridge-based partner Colin Jones. The firm advises a broad client base, including local authorities, contractors and developers across a number of sectors such as infrastructure, education and health. Paul Johnston and Andrew James, based in Worcester, are key names to note for their respective expertise in construction projects and disputes.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Employment > Employment
- Employment > Pensions
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms