Peter Brogden

Call: 2006

Email: pbrogden@keatingchambers.com

Tel: +44 (0)20 7544 2600

Practice Overview

Peter is an experienced construction barrister with principal specialities in construction, energy, shipbuilding and technology disputes. He has worked on a range of engineering disputes, including power stations, pipelines, oil rigs, LNG processing facilities, refinery and extraction, biomass and civil infrastructure projects. His work includes arbitrations seated around the World, including Australia, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Africa.

Highly praised by clients for being ‘a fantastic barrister’ with a ‘good eye for detail’ and a ‘real pleasure to work with’ he is recognised in the legal directories noting his ‘superior forensic capability enabling him to distil complex points and identify risks and issues’. He is also ranked in Legal 500 Asia for “his technical expertise, wider than the law, [which] sets him apart from the others.

Peter is an Honorary Professor at University College London, where he teaches contract administration and law.

Peter also sits on the Bar Council’s Information Technology Panel which advises barristers and government departments on the security, data management, GDPR and emergent technologies.

He is an experienced arbitrator (FCIArb), accredited panel adjudicator, and a contributing author of Keating on Construction Contracts and Keating on Offshore Construction and Marine Engineering Contracts.

Recent work includes:

  • Lead counsel in $100m ICC arbitration concerning a series of bridge structures in Sydney.
  • Representing a major Australian contractor in seven multi-billion dollar arbitration hearings concerning near-shore marine works at a gas processing facility.
  • Instructed by the world’s largest construction company in a delay and disruption dispute concerning a South African coal-fired power station.
  • Instructed by a large Australian contractor in a series of LCIA/DIFC international arbitrations relating to a large UAE-based Mall and luxury residential development.
  • Representing a Korean joint venture in a $600 million dispute about a power station in the Middle East.
  • Represented a Hong Kong consultancy in a HK$37m domestic arbitration with a Chinese bank.
  • Instructed by a Singaporean buyer in an LMAA arbitration with a Chinese yard concerning an offshore platform support vessel.
Practice Areas
  • International Arbitration
  • Construction & Engineering
  • IT & Technology
  • Energy & Natural Resources
  • PFI/PPP
  • Commercial
  • Infrastructure & Utilities
  • Offshore Construction & Marine Engineering
  • Professional Negligence
International Arbitration
  • Lead counsel in $100m ICC arbitration concerning a series of bridge structures in Sydney.
  • Representing a major Australian contractor in seven multi-billion-dollar arbitration hearings concerning near-shore marine works at a gas processing facility.
  • Instructed by the world’s largest construction company in a delay and disruption dispute concerning a South African coal-fired power station.
  • Instructed by a large Australian contractor in a series of LCIA/DIFC international arbitrations relating to a large UAE-based Mall and luxury residential development.
  • Acted for a large Italian energy contractor against a Lebanese subcontractor in a €246 million dispute relating to welding defects in an Algerian pipeline.
  • Represented a Korean joint venture in a $600 million dispute about a power station in the Middle East.
  • Instructed by a Singaporean buyer in an LMAA arbitration with a Chinese yard concerning an offshore platform support vessel.
  • Represented a Malaysian joint venture on a $300 million international arbitration relating to a Sudanese oil processing facility.
  • Instructed in an $11 million international arbitration on demobilisation rights for a semisubmersible oil drilling platform in Australia.
  • Instructed to defend a major delay and defects dispute relating to a semi-submersible oil drilling platform constructed in South Korea.
Construction & Engineering
  • Lead counsel in $100m ICC arbitration concerning a series of bridge structures in Sydney.
  • Representing a major Australian contractor in five multi-billion dollar arbitrations concerning near-shore marine works at a gas processing facility.
  • Instructed by the world’s largest construction company in a delay and disruption dispute concerning a South African coal-fired power station.
  • Instructed by a large Australian contractor in a series of LCIA/DIFC international arbitrations relating to a large UAE-based Mall and luxury residential development.
  • Acted for a large Italian energy contractor against a Lebanese subcontractor in a €246 million dispute relating to welding defects in an Algerian pipeline.
  • Represented a Korean joint venture in a $600 million dispute about a power station in the Middle East.
IT & Technology
  • Instructed on behalf of Accenture plc in a £280 million software dispute with British Gas (GB Gas Holdings v Accenture).
  • Represented a Hong Kong consultancy in a HK$37 million domestic arbitration with a Chinese bank.
  • Advised and drafted proceedings in an action to enforce a software distribution agreement for an anti-virus software product suite.
  • Acted for an IT contractor in a web services procurement project for a central government agency.
  • Advised a technology start-up company on cloud services contracts.
Energy & Natural Resources
  • Representing a major Australian contractor in four multi-billion dollar arbitrations concerning near-shore marine works at a gas processing facility.
  • Instructed by the world’s largest construction company in a delay and disruption dispute concerning a South African coal-fired power station.
  • Acted for Amec plc in a substantial commercial adjudication relating to a Flue-gas desulfurization at a power station in Aberthaw.
  • Instructed in an $11 million international arbitration on demobilisation rights for a semisubmersible oil drilling platform in Australia.
  • Represented a Malaysian joint venture on a $300 million international arbitration relating to a Sudanese oil processing facility.
  • Instructed to defend a major delay and defects dispute relating to a semi-submersible oil drilling platform constructed in South Korea.
  • Instructed on behalf of a biomass contractor in a £4.5 million dispute about the construction of an anaerobic digestion plant in Cornwall.
PFI/PPP
  • Instructed (as Junior Counsel to Marcus Taverner QC) by a PFI client in a fire-stopping claim from a UK hospital trust.
  • Instructed by a hospital trust in relation to Availability Deductions under a PFI contract.
  • Acted for a hospital trust in a construction dispute against a PFI contractor.
Commercial
  • Instructed by HM Treasury Solicitor on behalf of the Ministry of Defence in the group litigation arising out of the series of British nuclear tests carried out in Australia and the South Pacific in the 1950s.
  • Acted in a High Court dispute relating to the validity of a parent company guarantee.
  • Acted in a professional negligence action against an architect for failure to progress works or obtain adequate planning permission.
Infrastructure & Utilities
  • Represented Carillion in a £30 million dispute related to a bypass road in the south west of England.
  • Junior counsel for Brookfield Multiplex in a £280 million dispute arising out of the construction of the Wembley Stadium.
  • Instructed (as Junior Counsel to Peter Fraser QC) by Carillion and Balfour Beatty in a £242 million final account dispute for the East London Line reconstruction works.
  • Acted for Amec plc in a substantial commercial adjudication relating to a Flue-gas desulfurization at a power station in Aberthaw.
  • Regularly acts for British Telecommunication plc to secure land rights, recover fees under the New Roads and Street Works Act, and defend damages actions from landowners.
Offshore Construction & Marine Engineering
  • Instructed by a Singaporean buyer in an LMAA arbitration with a Chinese yard concerning an offshore platform support vessel.
  • Instructed in an $11 million LCIA arbitration on demobilisation rights for a semisubmersible oil drilling platform in Australia.
  • Represented a Malaysian joint venture on a $300 million international arbitration relating to a Sudanese oil processing facility.
  • Instructed to defend a major delay and defects dispute relating to a semi-submersible oil drilling platform constructed in South Korea.
Professional Negligence
  • Acted for Galliford Try plc in a major TCC defects and professional negligence dispute relating to the Broadway Plaza shopping centre in Birmingham.
  • Instructed as sole counsel in three High Court claims relating to the negligent design of bathroom ‘pods’ in student accommodation at the Universities of Exeter, Nottingham and Kent.
  • Instructed by a major contractor as sole counsel in a £9 million domestic arbitration relating to negligent design and workmanship defects in a residential home in Leeds.
  • Acted in a professional negligence action against an architect for failure to progress works or obtain adequate planning permission.
  • Defended an architect in a professional negligence and fee dispute claim relating to a luxury private development in Epsom.