| Martin is a Solicitor Advocate who has specialised in construction and engineering matters for over a decade and has acted for major contractors, employers, utilities, insurers and consultants in relation to major national and international construction and engineering projects.
Martin’s experience includes major arbitration disputes and complex adjudication and adjudication enforcement proceedings. This work has taken him from places as diverse as an off-shore platform in the North Sea to Western Australia.
He read Law at Nottingham University and is a founder partner of Sloan PlumbWood LLP. Martin was previously a partner at Greenwoods and prior to that worked in the construction department of Herbert Smith in the City of London.
Martin is a member of the Technology and Construction Solicitors Association and The Society of Construction Law.
He is the author of ‘The Construction Act – A Practical Guide’, Foreword by Sir Michael Latham, published by Chandos (Oxford) February 1999.
He is also a CEDR Accredited Mediator and has acted for clients in numerous mediations.
Martin has been appointed as a TeCSA registered adjudicator and advised on several adjudications and proceedings in respect of enforcement of adjudicator’s decisions.
Martin has been recommended by the Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession as one of the leading individuals in the construction field in his region. He has also been recommended by Legal Business as an expert in construction.
He also has considerable experience in drafting and advising on construction contracts, financing and supporting development, documentation, consultant’s appointments and associated warranties and guarantees.
Martin acted in the well known case on the meaning of “dispute” in the context of adjudication Edmund Nuttall v. R G Carter [2002]. He has also been involved in numerous major cases including several reported decisions in respect of construction and engineering projects including;
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