​Name: 
Murray Armes FPD
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Location:  
London, United Kingdom
Contact details: 
Detailed CV available on request from Prime Dispute. 
+447771595707

Qualifications: 
BA, Dip Arch, MA, MSc (Constr Law), FCIArb, FPD

Specialisation: 
Construction Law, Arbitration, Adjudication and Mediation

Languages:
English 

Regions served: 
London, UK, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia
Far East and further international regions as requested
Industry Sectors:*​​​​​​​
  • Architecture
  • Building
  • Infrastructure
  • Construction​​

Practice Areas: *​​​  
  • Arbitration
  • Adjudication 
  • Dispute Boards
  • Expert Witness
  • Independent Expert
  • Mediation 
  • Specialist Panel​




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Background information: 
Murray Armes is a Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Adjudicator, Mediator and Dispute Board Member who is included on the FIDIC President’s List of international adjudicators. He is a Past President for Region 2 of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation.
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Having been instructed in over 300 cases as expert in the UK, Europe, Africa, Far East and the Middle East, he has been appointed as adjudicator in about 50 cases as well as arbitrator in about 40 cases (including international arbitration) and is currently appointed to six dispute boards, including the ITER Prototype Fusion Energy Project in France, which is the world’s largest energy project and also to the Adjudication Panel for the new High Luminosity Project at CERN in Switzerland, to the DAB for an EPR nuclear project, an energy supply network in Ghana and a cutting edge building project in Iraq.

Murray is the author of many articles and has contributed to a number of books, and he also regularly speaks at international conferences and carries out training in dispute avoidance and resolution, including under FIDIC contracts.

Having gained his Honours Degree and Diploma with distinction in Architecture at Sheffield University in 1978 and 1981 respectively a Master of Arts with distinction in Architecture in 1981 and a Master’s Degree in Construction Law from King’s College, London in 2003, he became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2007. Murray is on various dispute resolution panels with the RIBA, CIArb, RICS, FIDIC, ICC, IDRS, and CEDR.​​

Detailed CV available on request from Prime Dispute. 
*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.