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Jim McCluskey, Kier Group
In our second series of interviews, Len Bunton, the current President of the Conflict Avoidance Coalition, will facilitate a discussion with Jim McCluskey, a member of the Conflict Avoidance Coalition representing both Kier and the CICES. Jim’s day-to-day role is with Kier Infrastructure and he will discuss with Len his experiences in being involved in one of the first tranche of Conflict Avoidance Panel cases and he will discuss the benefits that he sees in introducing this process into the United Kingdom construction industry. Jim is one of the trustees on the Council of Management and also Chair of the Commercial Management Practices Committee of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors and will highlight the progress being made in creating awareness in that sector.
They will discuss the measures that are being taken to create a wider awareness of conflict avoidance in the industry, and how organisations can commit to this and implement conflict avoidance into their day-to-day business model?. They will also look at some of the hurdles that need to be overcome to get a wider commitment from the industry and to creating early intervention to prevent issues escalating into construction disputes which are disruptive and expensive.
Jeremy Glover, Fenwick Elliot
Fenwick Elliott partner Jeremy Glover has been at the core of the Conflict Avoidance Coalition’s work for a number years, having spearheaded our inaugural conference and played a major part in attracting leading speakers to our events. He is immediate Past President of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation, one of the found members of the coalition. He has specialised in construction energy and engineering law and related matters for most of his career. An accredited adjudicator and member of the FIDIC President’s List of Dispute Adjudicators, he focusses on dispute avoidance and resolution where his experience spans litigation, arbitration (domestic and international), adjudication, DAB/DRB, mediation, early neutral evaluation and expert determination. He is also editor of Dispatch, a monthly publication covering key construction law updates.