Paul Taplin

Paul has extensive international experience covering the UK, Mainland Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and the U.S.

With pan sector experience Paul has covered a diverse mix of projects including infrastructure, building, power, civil engineering, industrial, water, and oil and gas.

Paul is regularly appointed as a quantum expert witness and has given evidence many times in London, Seoul, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, and virtually. He has been cross-examined by Kings Counsel and has experience of witness conferencing often termed hot-tubbing.

Paul’s professional experience includes:

• Quantum Expert: Paul has been appointed as quantum expert on several very large construction disputes, which have been the subject of international arbitration. On average, he gives oral expert witness testimony three or four times a year to arbitration tribunals in various jurisdictions. The arbitral panels are often made up of a King’s Counsel, barristers, lawyers, architects, engineers, and/or surveyors. Paul has been regularly commended on his ability to simplify complicated matters for the benefit of the tribunal. He has also been cross examined by a King’s Counsel and has considerable experience of witness conferencing.
• Construction Claims Advisor: Historically, Paul has acted in the capacity of construction claims advisor either on behalf of main/sub-contractors preparing contractual entitlement claims or on behalf of employers defending such claims.
• Adjudication: Paul is also a Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Panel Adjudicator and has been involved in over 100 adjudications since the inception of the UK Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act on May 1, 1998, either in the capacity of party representative — for either the referring or the responding party — or as adjudicator. Such was the success of the statutory process, in early 2000 adjudication became the number one form of dispute resolution in the UK overtaking arbitration, litigation, and any other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Paul spent over 13 years at the forefront of this dispute resolution process as it evolved and developed.
• Mediation: Paul is a Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution-Accredited Mediator and has acted in the capacity of mediator on numerous occasions as part of the Pre-Action Protocol where under the Civil Procedure Rules in the UK parties in litigation are obliged to mediate their disputes prior to a court hearing. Paul has also acted as party representative on numerous occasions.