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Process Plants

With our considerable expertise and experience in providing legal advice and dispute resolution services in projects relating to the construction and operation of process plants, Keating Chambers has an impressive reputation within the industry.

Our members’ work in this area, ranging from domestic disputes to international arbitration and mediation, has a truly global outlook, extending as it does over a wide range of processes and industries throughout the UK and the world. Some recent and current cases illustrate some of the major process industries with which our members are actively involved, and give an indication of both the range of work which Chambers handles and the positions to which our members are regularly appointed.

Advocacy/representation

  • providing representation as leading counsel and junior counsel in the Court of Appeal in Shawton Engineering Ltd v DGP [2005]    All ER (D) 24 on the design of a process plant for the handling of nuclear waste at Sellafield

  • acting for the contractor on claims relating to the construction of a power and water desalination plant in the Middle East

  • advising a Middle East State owner in relation to claims arising from an oil treatment and stabilisation plant

  • appearing in litigation relating to a coal liquefaction plant

  • appearing in the Birmingham Technology and Construction Court in a dispute relating to a mineral processing contract

  • advising a nationalised corporation in the Middle East in relation to a dispute arising from the construction of a magnesium oxide plant on the Dead Sea.

Arbitration/Dispute Resolution appointments

  • appointment as sole arbitrator in a Far East ICC arbitration arising from the construction of a chemical plant

  • appointment as arbitrator in a dispute in Scotland relating to an ‘energy from animal waste’ project

  • appointment as member of a tribunal hearing the arbitration of a dispute concerning a combined chemical and power facility in India, and of another tribunal hearing of a process engineering dispute in the UK

  • mediation of a dispute arising from the construction of a ‘waste to energy’ plant in the north east of England.

Further Information
For further information on how our members can assist you, please contact the Senior Clerks, John Munton and Nick Child, in the first instance, on +44(0)20 7544 2600. They and their teams of Clerks will be pleased to advise you on the member of Keating Chambers appropriate to your requirements.