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Aileen Brown

Partner
Solicitor Advocate

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Aileen Brown

Partner
Solicitor Advocate

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

Aileen Brown is a Partner in the Infrastructure, Construction and Energy Disputes Team. Aileen is a Solicitor Advocate and is dual qualified to practice in both Scotland and England & Wales.

Aileen advises on all forms dispute resolution procedure and dispute avoidance within the infrastructure and construction sector. She has experience of advising all parts of the contractual chain with a particular focus on large infrastructure and PFI projects.

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Memberships & Roles

  • The Solicitors’ Association of Higher Court Advocates
  • The Society of Construction Law
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Education

2009 – PG Dip in Legal Practice, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

2008 – LL.B, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

2006 – Ba(Hons) Social Science, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

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Expertise

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24/04/2024
Challenging conclusivity and “playing for time” under the JCT final account...
A recent TCC decision has considered the final account conclusivity provisions of the JCT form and the circumstances in which an adjudication commenced to preserve a challenge to the final account can...
Law-Now Real Estate
02/02/2022
Do the payment provisions of the Construction Act affect the limitation...
A recent TCC decision appears to be first to consider whether the payment provisions of the Construction Act and Scheme for Construction Contracts affect the commencement of the limitation period for...
Law-Now Real Estate
09/09/2019
Milestone payments and the Construction Act: Court of Appeal guidance 
A Court of Appeal decision published last week has considered the interplay between milestone payments agreed between the parties and the requirements of the Construction Act as to an adequate payment...
Law-Now Real Estate
24/07/2018
Pay less notices and rights of set-off: a growing controversy
A recent TCC decision appears to mark a departure from the position in Scotland as to whether an employer is entitled to raise set-offs not previously raised in a pay less notice. The TCC’s decision...
Law-Now Real Estate
15/11/2017
Pay less notices and final payments
A recent Court of Appeal decision has confirmed that the requirements for the service of pay less notices and the payment of “notified sums” contained in section 111 of the Housing Grants, Construction...
Law-Now Real Estate
20/09/2016
Piggy in the middle - project adjudicators and natural justice
A decision of the TCC last week has important implications for the use of a single adjudicator or panel of adjudicators for disputes across multiple contract tiers. Such arrangements are used to ensure...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
07/06/2016
Adjudication: disputes arising “under” and “in connection with” a construction...
A recent TCC decision has ruled that the right of adjudication mandated by the Construction Act for disputes arising “under” a construction contract is to be interpreted broadly. The court’s decision...
Law-Now Real Estate
10/03/2016
Adjudication: One at a time, please!
A recent decision of the TCC has decided that adjudicators appointed under the Scheme for Construction Contracts are not able to adjudicate at the same time upon separate disputes referred under separate...
Law-Now Real Estate
02/11/2015
Recovering legal and expert costs in adjudication
A recent TCC decision has considered an attempt to extend the limited circumstances in which parties may seek to recover legal and expert costs incurred in bringing or defending an adjudication. We summarise...
Law-Now Real Estate
20/03/2015
Adjudication: shaken but not stirred
Unless you have been hiding under a rock during the winter, you will likely have been aware of Eurocom Ltd v Siemens plc [2014] EWHC 3710 (TCC) in which it was held that Eurocom’s representatives had...
Law-Now Real Estate
31/10/2014
TCC procedural update: ADR and cost budgeting
The TCC has recently decided two points of procedure which will be of interest to those involved in or considering proceedings in the court. The first is that no dedicated ‘window’ is to be built...
Law-Now Real Estate
19/09/2014
Contract amendments may leave liquidated damages clauses vulnerable
A Commercial Court decision last week could have significant ramifications for liquidated damages (“LDs”) provisions in construction contracts. Although upholding Unaoil's debt claim and loss of profit...
Law-Now Real Estate
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