Harris Consulting specialise in the provision of dispute resolution advice. A number of staff are contract dispute experts, holding additional legal or arbitration qualifications.

Sometimes disputes are unavoidable. Using authoritative analytical skills, Harris Consulting will detail a client’s case in a manner that expedites settlement. It is Harris Consulting’s philosophy that whilst success is always the objective, this must at all times be viewed against realistic expectations based upon the facts and merits of a given case. Harris Consulting is able to facilitate timely resolution of the dispute by production and management of concise and clear documentation, which is crucial to the commercial success of a project in dispute.

Harris Consulting formal dispute resolution services to clients’ covers:

• Adjudication

• Mediation or Conciliation

• Arbitration and Litigation support

• Expert Witness

• Engaged by a major local authority to defend multi-million pound claims arising on five separate design and build contracts. Successfully managing the disputes, Harris Consulting were able to settle all claims on terms favourable to our client

• Appointed by a major contractor to advise on M&E disputes arising on a £40m hotel project in central London. Harris Consulting successfully pursued and recovered its client’s entitlements arising under the contract in three separate adjudications

• Appointed by a major public utility client to prepare a defence to a £1.7m claim referred to adjudication under the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act. Harris Consulting successfully led a team of surveyors and other contract specialists, which resulted in the parties settling in favourable terms well ahead of the date for the decision

• Malcolm Harris is regularly nominated as adjudicator and to date has adjudicated on over 60 disputes between parties