Professional background

Niall Lawless is a Chartered Arbitrator, Information Systems Practitioner, Mechanical Engineer, Building Services Engineer, and Chartered Builder.  He offers arbitration, mediation, and adjudication services, and his commercial and technical expertise is particularly appropriate in both domestic and international commercial technology, engineering, and construction disputes.

Dispute resolution experience

He is an experienced Chartered Arbitrator and member of the London Court of International Arbitration, the Chartered Institute of Building, the Chartered Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the British Computer Society, the Regional Centre for Arbitration Kuala Lumpur, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board and the Thai Arbitration Institute's panel of Arbitrators.  He is also a member of the World Intellectual Property Organisation list of experts and arbitrator and mediator panel.

He is a Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) and a Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (C.I.Arb.) accredited mediator.  He is also a CROCNAC certified and Mediation UK registered mediator actively involved in commercial and community disputes and has acted as mediator on about eighty occasions.  He has been appointed mediator directly by the parties and also acted as mediator in disputes directed from the Birmingham Civil Justice Centre and the Central London Civil Justice Centre.

Niall is Chair of the British Computer Society Professional Conduct Investigations Committee and member of the Institution of Civil Engineers Disciplinary Committee. He is member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Board of Trustees.  He is undertaking a part time PhD in International Commercial Arbitration at the Faculty of Law of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China. In 2008 he was appointed as EU Expert to help China investigate improvements to its arbitration law.

Membership of professional organisations and education

• Chartered Arbitrator and Engineer.
• Fellow of the British Computer Society. (F.B.C.S.)
• Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Mechanical Engineers. (F.I.Mech.E.)
• Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers. (F.C.I.B.S.E.)
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building. (F.C.I.O.B.)
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. (F.C.I.Arb.)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.  (F.R.S.A.)

• Master of Science Degree (Distinction) in Information Technology.
• Master of Business Administration Degree in Technology Management.
• Master of Arts Degree in Foresight and Futures Studies.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Arbitration.
• Postgraduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration.
• Postgraduate Diploma (Distinction) in Building Services.
• Bachelor of Science Degree (Honours) in Building Technology.