Dr John Hughes, Director

BSc (Dist) LLM (Euro) LLM (Const) PGCert RPD PhD FRICS FCIArb MAE

Dr John Hughes is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and Quantum Expert with significant experience in commercial and contractual management covering buildings, infrastructure, industrial, and process sectors. In recent years, he has specialised in leading teams who provide expert quantum advice/opinion, claims management and various strategic support services in all forms of dispute resolution. Proven as a credible expert witness under cross-examination.

John has worked in private practice, main contracting and construction claims fields within a wide range of high-profile projects.

He has an in-depth working knowledge of drafting, applying and advising on various forms of contract including FIDIC, ICE, NEC, JCT/SBCC, bespoke contracts and joint venture agreements. John has also lectured post graduate civil engineering students on the various forms of the New Engineering Contract (NEC) and regularly hosts training seminars for senior construction professionals on contract and claims management.

His project experience includes highways, rail systems, airports, office redevelopments, offshore windfarms, ports, oil and gas, coal and nuclear processing projects.

John holds a BSc with distinction in Quantity Surveying and two LLM master’s degrees in Law (Construction and European). John also holds a post graduate certificate in Research and has a PhD in Law, title of thesis “Global Claims in Construction and Engineering Projects”.

John is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a practising Member of the Academy of Experts.