Andrew Noble FRICS, FCIArb, C. Arb.
Membership Status: Barrister - Associate Member
General Information
As a dually qualified barrister at law and chartered surveyor, Andrew offers sound legal and tactical advice and can often bring innovative, cost-effective and practical solutions to problems in hand.
Called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1992, Andrew was reappointed Treasury Counsel in October 2003, a position he held for more than 7 years. Before being called to the bar, Andrew was an experienced Chartered Surveyor (FRICS) and former branch chairman of both the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).
Andrew advises, drafts, negotiates and represents clients in litigation, arbitration and in ADR/mediation. He appears as an advocate in the High Court (Chancery and QBD divisions, including TCC and Commercial/Mercantile courts) and in the county courts of England and Wales. He has appeared in numerous disputes in the First-tier Tribunal (Land Chamber).
A Registered Chartered Arbitrator, Andrew has been instructed and has appeared as an advocate in a number of 1996 Arbitration Act arbitrations. He is familiar with the instruments of International Commercial Arbitration and the ICC, LCIA and DIAC rules. He is also a fully accredited Dubai International Financial Centre Advocate.
Andrew is an Accredited Mediator and Construction Adjudicator and is an experienced dispute resolver across all the areas of practice in which he specialises (which principally involve him acting in the capacity of chartered arbitrator, mediator, adjudicator or expert).
Areas of law
- Commercial Chancery
- Construction & Engineering
- Professional Liability & Related Insolvency Cases
- Defective Dwellings & NHBC/Warranty Claims
Commercial Chancery Litigation
- Land and real property, including boundary disputes and party wall advice and drafting
- Commercial, including contracts, insurance, JVs, partnerships and international arbitration
The chairman of the Bar Council appointed Andrew to resolve a multi-million-pound sterling dispute between developers and land owners involving complex Developers’ “overage” contracts (involving the determination of the meaning of the contract with a view to ascertaining the calculation of additional payments due from a developer to a former owner of significant hectares of development land).
Construction & Engineering
- Defects
- Variations
- Time and money claims in litigation
- Arbitrations and ADR, including Adjudications
Professional Liability
- Surveyors
- Architects
- Engineers
- Brokers
- Office holders
- Lawyers
- Accountants
Defective Dwellings & NHBC/Warranty Claims
Andrew has been heavily involved in the leading multi-party litigation.
Memberships
- Chancery Bar Association
- Property Bar Association
- Insolvency Law Association
- Technology and Construction Court Bar Association
- Professional Negligence Bar Association
- RICS’ Pyramus & Thisbe Club (Party Walls)
Personal Interests
Music, melodic jazz (esp. violin), the interaction between gardening and cooking, reading and teaching.
