Fenella Mason
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Construction
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About
Provided by Fenella Mason
Practice Areas
Fenella has specialised in construction law for over 25 years. With experience in both contentious and non-contentious aspects of construction projects, Fenella now focusses on the resolution of high-value construction and engineering disputes.
She regularly deploys adjudication, arbitration, litigation and mediation in order to bring about the resolution of disputes across a range of construction and engineering projects including roads, rail, energy, utilities, education, office, leisure and retail.
Professional Memberships
Society of Construction Law, member and former Council member.
Work Highlights
An international mining company in an ICC arbitration regarding the provision of an energy from waste plant.
An M&E subcontractor on disputes arising out of the design and construction of a traditionally procured new build hospital.
A utilities supplier in litigation and lengthy negotiation relation to an allegedly defective HV cable installation.
A major contractor in litigation over design and workmanship issues arising in a leisure centre.
A major contractor in adjudication, litigation and mediation over provisional sums and EOT claims in a PPP College.
A utilities contractor in relation to adjudication, arbitration and mediation over the installation of allegedly defective pipe lining.
A contractor in relation to litigation and mediation over alleged defects in an extension to a castle for a HNW individual.
Numerous litigations, adjudications and negotiation in relation to disputes arising out of the design and construction of the M8.
A fire engineering consultant on issues relating to design in relation to a new build PPP hospital.
Education
Edinburgh University
Law
1985
Chambers Review
UK
Fenella Mason focuses her practice on contentious construction mandates. She represents clients in litigation and arbitration as well as lengthy adjudications.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Fenella Mason is really good at high-level strategy and disputes, and is always very transparent on fees. She is conscious of wider commercial implications."
"She's very unflappable and gives excellent advice. She is very good at being creative and coming up with different ways of looking at things."
"Fenella Mason is really good at high-level strategy and disputes, and is always very transparent on fees. She is conscious of wider commercial implications."
"She's very unflappable and gives excellent advice. She is very good at being creative and coming up with different ways of looking at things."
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