Keating Chambers

Robert Gaitskell
Keating Chambers, 15 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AA

Tel: +44 (0)20 7544 2600
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Dispute Resolution | United Kingdom

Dr Robert Gaitskell QC practises from Keating Chambers,  specialising

in technology, engineering and construction disputes, often of an

international nature. He was called to the Bar in 1978, appointed

Queen’s Counsel in 1994 and sat as a Recorder (part-time judge) from

2000-2010. Robert Gaitskell predominately acts as an arbitrator,

adjudicator, dispute board member and mediator. He is both a lawyer and a

professional engineer. He is the editor of ‘Keating

Construction Dispute Resolution Handbook’ (3rd edition 2016); and a

former Vice President of the IEE/ IET (Europe’s biggest professional

engineering institution). He is a member of the Singapore National

Electricity Market Dispute Resolution & Compensation Panel. Dr

Gaitskell is the chairman of a dispute board for a Euro 20 billion

nuclear energy project. He writes extensively and lectures throughout

the world on legal/engineering subjects, including at CERN in Geneva

and  Xerox PARC in Silicon valley.

Current Activities

Dr Gaitskell is currently acting as chairman or member of various

ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SIAC, KLRCA, EDF, DIAC, ICDR/AAA, Dubai RTA and

other arbitral tribunals, dealing with matters such as oil and gas

installations and pipelines, power stations, oil and gas plants,

petro-chemical works, and other complex engineering and process

projects. As examples, he is  dispute board member  in respect of

high-technology international power project, Chairman of an

Uncitral arbitral panel dealing with a Russian oil/gas processing

facility dispute; a tribunal member for a Dubai construction dispute,

and for a Korean infrastructure arbitration, and for a Qatari

utilities dispute. He was the expert determinator for an Omani power

station. He has recently mediated a Singaporean hi-tech dispute and

chaired a tribunal dealing with energy pricing in S.E. Asia.  He has

also advised on a dispute concerning a Russian floating nuclear power

facility. He was recently a co-arbitrator on an ICC panel dealing with a

dispute concerning a sub-sea gas pipeline bringing energy supplies from

Russia to Europe. He is also conducting an African mining arbitration,

and chairing a dispute panel dealing with defence projects in the UK. He

has recently advised the Corporation of London on a major structural

project and represented the Isle of Man Government in the Privy Council

in an infrastructure project.

In addition to his practice at the Bar, Robert Gaitskell is a

Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and

Technology and is a former Senator of the Engineering Council. He is

also a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Fellow of

the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Robert Gaitskell’s wide

experience as an engineer, both in the UK and abroad, has included power

generation, transmission, distribution and application, motor control

and oil rig design.

Robert Gaitskell has lectured on The University of London (King’s

College and Queen Mary’s) LLMs in International Arbitration, dealing

with Infrastructure arbitrations. Chambers & Partners’ directory

consistently recommends him as a leading international arbitrator.

He also regularly carries out expert determinations involving complex

engineering disputes. He is Chairman of the IET/IMechE Joint Committee

on Model Forms, which produces the MF/1-4 suite of contracts used for

major electro-mechanical projects worldwide. His doctorate from King’s

College London concerned standard form engineering contracts. He is a

Bencher of Gray’s Inn and a former member of the Council of the Inns of

Court (COIC) Tribunals Appointment Body.

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