His Honour John Toulmin CMG, QC

CMG, QC
Email: jtoulmin@3vb-arbitrators.com

• 1997-2011 Judge of the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) (formerly 1997-8 Official Referee)
• 1994-2011 Deputy High Court Judge sitting in Chancery and Queen's Bench Divisions
• 1997-2010 Chairman, Board of Trustees of European Law Academy (ERA)
  2011 Hon Life Chairman, presented with Liber Amicorum
• 2009 Hon Visiting Professor at King's College London, taught LL.M course on Dispute Resolution including comparison between Arbitration and court-based resolution, and theory and practice of Mediation
• 1997-2009 Member, Council of King's College London, awarded FKC 2006
• 1995 Life Senator, European Bar Presidents' Conference, awarded Austrian Great Decoration of Merit
• 1993 President, CCBE (European Bar Council)
  1989-1993 Negotiated Uruguay Round (GATS) on behalf of European legal profession
• 1984-1997 Recorder trying civil and criminal cases
• 1980-1997 Practising Queen's Counsel
• 1965 Called to Bar, Middle Temple
• 1964-5 University of Michigan, LL.M
• 1960-63 Trinity Hall Cambridge, MA

Judicial experience relevant to Arbitration and Mediation

• All types of national and international construction disputes, including complex points of law and fact e.g. delay analysis, Defective Premises Act, JCT Form , see e.g. Mirant Asia Pacific v Ove Arup (Nos 1 and 2) [2004] 97 Con LR 1 and [2007] EWHC 918(TCC), [2008] Bus LR(D)1
• Complex IT contract disputes
• Adjudication enforcement, see CIB v Birse [2005] 1 WLR 2252
• Arbitration Act 1996, see Durtnell v Secretary of State [2000] 74 Con LR 87 
• Barrister's negligence, see McFaddens v Platford [2009] P&LR 26
• Conflicts of laws
• Damages
• Dilapidations, see PGF(II) v Royal Sun Alliance [2010] EWHC 1459(TCC)
• European law, see Factortame (No 7) [2001] 1 WLR 942
• Experts' duties and responsibilities, see Anglo v Wintherbrown [2000] Con LR 118
• Fire cases
• Insolvency and Company law, see Smith v Bridgend County Borough Council, upheld by House of Lords at [2002] 1 AC 336
• Practice and Procedure, including disclosure of documents and legal advice privilege
• Solicitors' conveyancing practice
• Tort

Devised for the TCC the Dispute Settlement Conference (akin to Mediation) and carried out 5 successful "Mediations" after receiving mediation training.

Practice at the Bar included;

• cases involving US and EU law
• international arbitration
• medical law both clinical negligence
• medical inquiries
• disciplinary hearings and
• judicial review

Member Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Hon Life Member TECBar

Languages

French (fluent) and some German.

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