Clive Freedman

Call 1975; CEDR Accredited Mediator; FCIArb; FBCS; MA (Cantab); TECBAR approved Adjudicator
Email: cfreedman@3vb.com

Clive Freedman's practice covers information technology, banking, building and engineering, and commercial fraud. He is particularly interested in cases involving IT (including internet and e-commerce), technical, scientific and accounting issues. He also deals with arbitration, expert determination, employment, insurance, oil and gas, professional negligence, sale of goods and international trade, and company law. He is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and a Chartered Arbitrator, and is named as a leading junior in Information Technology in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.

Additional Professional Qualifications

• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Chartered Arbitrator. Member of the CIArb Panel of Mediators
• Fellow of the British Computer Society
• CEDR Accredited Mediator
• TECBAR Approved Adjudicator

Appointments

• Chair of the Disciplinary Panel of the British Society
• Trustee of BAILII (British and Irish Legal Computer Information Institute)
• Trustee of the Society for Computers & Law
• Member of Bar Council's IT Committee

Publications and Articles

• Co-author of Expert Determination, Fourth Edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2008 (Kendall, Freedman and Farrell).
• Contributor to Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings (IT disputes), 14th, 15th and 16th Editions, Sweet & Maxwell.
• Contributor to Banking Litigation (edited by Warne and Elliott, 1999 and 2005).
• Abortive IT Projects - clearing up the mess, Computers & Law December 2000/January 2001.
• Avoiding Pitfalls in IT Mediations, Computers & Law, February/March 2004.
• An article on J Pereira Fernandes SA v Mehta [2006] EWHC 813 (Ch), [2006] 1 WLR 1543 Computer Law & Security Report (Vol 23, No. 1, 2007), written with Jake Hardy of Reed Smith).

Professional Associations

• COMBAR
• TECBAR
• London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association
• Society for Computers and Law
• Society of Construction Law
• Franco-British Lawyers Association
• LCIA

Languages

French (fluent), German (working knowledge).