​Name: 
John Dowse
​
Location:  
Trinidad & Tobago
Contact details: 
+1-868-792-6245

Qualifications: 
LLB(Hons) PgDip (Legal Practice), MCIArb, MCInstCES, MIOD, FPD.

Specialisation: 
Barrister, Chartered Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveyor, Arbitrator, Adjudicator, Registered Mediator.

Languages:
English.

Regions served: 
Caribbean and worldwide upon request.
Industry Sectors :*​
  • Commercial building
  • Construction & Heavy Engineering
  • Dredging
  • Highways
  • Marine
  • Petrochemical/Process engineering
  • Power Generation
  • Residential building
  • Retail development
  • Sewerage transportation & treatment
  • Sports & leisure development
  • Transport
  • Tunnelling
  • Utility works
  • Water processing & transportation

Practice Areas:*
  • Arbitration
  • ​Arb-Med
  • Adjudication
  • Commercial Negotiation
  • Conciliation
  • Dispute Board Member
  • Early Neutral Evaluation
  • Emergency Arbitration
  • Independent Expert
  • Mediation 
  • Med-Arb
  • Specialist panel
Background information: 
John Dowse is a Chartered Civil Engineering Quantity Surveyor, Barrister of the Middle Temple in England and Wales, and dispute resolution practitioner with over thirty years of experience at all levels within contracting companies and consulting practices worldwide.
John has been based substantially in Trinidad & Tobago where he established Cerno Services Ltd and Resolution Chambers, providing construction, legal, management, training and dispute resolution consulting services to contractors, employer organisations, state enterprises, the legal profession, and to local/international clients.
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Overview
  • Experienced building, construction, engineering and industrial professional also qualified in law, with over 30 years of experience. Presently based in the Caribbean and operating worldwide providing dispute resolution services variously as advisor, advocate and tribunal. Practising expert in quantum and delay analysis.
  • John is a trainer in construction law, dispute resolution, construction management and practice, and construction claims.
  • John was the Regional Vice President for an international project management and consulting organisation responsible for operations throughout the Caribbean.​;
  • John was based in the U.A.E. but worked internationally, providing consultancy on mega-projects including the Dubai Festival City and Burj Khalifa projects.;
  • John was employed within a number of UK based contracting organisations, mainly on specialist civil engineering projects, in positions up to and including Board level.
Detailed CV available on request from Prime Dispute. 
Our ★★★★★ on the 'DIPC' represents the following: 
  • Agreed to abide by 'Criteria for inclusion on  Prime Dispute's Panels';
  • Applications for both senior 'Fellowship' and 'Panels' approved;
  • Agreed to abide by Prime Dispute's 'Administration Process of Cases Note' & 'Schedule of Fees for all Cases';
  • Agreed to abide by Prime Dispute's 'User Agreement for FPD (Fellow Prime Dispute) Members'';
  • Agreed to abide by Prime Dispute's 'Business Ethics and Conflict of Interest Policy' - Including 'Section 6' on 'Business Ethics for Dispute Resolver'. ​​​​​
*Prime Dispute also provides a 'Formal Appointment Service', All our senior neutrals who are officially appointed will need to comply with our ' Formal Criteria' before nomination.
*Conflict checks would need to be undertaken prior to the neutral being formally appointed.