Charles Thompson

Charlie is described as “just a class act with quality of work beyond his call” and “a star of the future.” His practice spans both domestic and international disputes, including Contractors’ All Risks (CAR) matters in respect of Saudi Arabian engineering projects, Qatari gas processing facilities and developments in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Charlie has experience in relation to a variety of standard form contracts including FIDIC, NEC and the JCT forms. Of late, he has also been involved in numerous construction, adjudication and professional negligence matters in his own right. Recent work includes a multi-million-pound final account loss and expense dispute over hotel development works in Piccadilly, professional negligence claims against a firm of architects on a major North Wales commercial project and a contractual dispute involving a data processing facility in Belgium.

Whilst on a Pegasus Scholarship in the Middle East, Charlie worked with the DIFC Courts and contributed to the Courts of the Future Forum, an initiative to anticipate and design future litigation processes. Charlie drafted the first round of the procedural rules for the courts of the future and spoke at the launch event for this international project.