Allen Dyer

Allen is heavily involved in construction litigation in the TCC and arbitration in related fields. He also maintains an extensive practice in the Queen’s Bench Division and the Court of Appeal.

He acts for the full range of construction industry bodies including developers, contractors, sub-contractors, architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, project and facilities managers. He has experience of every type of construction problem from foundation design to complex roof construction, as well as post-completion management disputes, and is highly regarded for his ability to identify and deliver the most appropriate method of dispute resolution for each case.

Most of his cases involve multi-million pound claims and are factually complex.

Featured Construction & Engineering cases

Instructed by a major contractor in a case brought by a government department involving defective work to the roof of a timber slip classified as an ancient monument in Plymouth Dockyard. The case was appealed to the Court of Appeal on issues of estoppel, waiver and betterment.

Instructed by the engineers in a multi-million pound claim by the employers and contractors involving all parties concerned in the construction of an office development in Cambridge (UIPL/Alfred McAlpine v Hannah Reed & Others), the construction litigation running parallel to McAlpine v Panatown.

Instructed by the developer of a housing estate constructed upon a partly-contaminated landfill site in Kent, suing the vendor of the land and his surveyor for misrepresentations.

Acted for the claimant in an action involving the design of pumping equipment for an aluminium can smelting plant in Brazil. Progress of the action depended upon the progress of parallel proceedings in Brazil.

Acted for a national firm of engineers in a claim against them arising from their design and supply of a complex air conditioning system at a well-known and high profile London museum’s reserve artefacts store.

Instructed by the engineers in an action brought by a London local authority in respect of the engineering design and the supervision of the construction of the Barking Barrage. Action settled at the door of the court.

Instructed by the engineers in the Sheffield Supertram litigation, multiple personal injuries actions brought as a result of the design and construction of the city’s tram system. The case involved complex issues relating to the design liability of different parties.

Acted in two arbitrations involving the decommissioning of a nuclear establishment and the resale of surplus military equipment, in which questions arose as to the construction of GC/Works/1, one of the principal forms of government contract.

Instructed by a construction industry tools supplier in a rights dispute with the inventor of a revolutionary construction power tool.

Instructed by a facilities management supply company in a dispute over the termination of its FM agreement with a national supermarket business. The supplier has already been successful in a number of adjudications, and is now moving to litigate further aspects of the dispute.

Instructed by a luxury residential property designer in a series of disputes with a finance provider over the disposal of a number of sites intended for the design and construction of luxury period properties.