Karen Gough is a Barrister in practice at 39 Essex Chambers, London, an Attorney-at-law (Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago), Chartered Arbitrator and accredited Adjudicator.
Karen practises internationally as counsel, attorney-at-law, arbitrator, adjudicator and ADR neutral. She has specialised, for more than 30 years, in complex construction, engineering, professional negligence and general commercial disputes whether resolved by litigation, arbitration, adjudication or other forms of ADR. She has appeared before the Courts of England and Wales at all levels including the Privy Council. Karen is dual qualified as a practising attorney in the Caribbean, a Chartered Arbitrator, a Certified International ADR Practitioner and is widely recognised as an expert in the resolution of disputes under the FIDIC and NEC forms of contract.
She is a past global President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, an expert advisor on construction, ADR and arbitration matters to the AIAC (Malaysia), IWHAAM (Bahamas), and JAIAC (Jamaica), a teaching fellow at the College of Law in Australia, past Vice Chairman of SCL UK, a member of the International Statutory Adjudication Forum of Experts (“ISAF”) and Chair of the drafting committee of ISAF’s Model Law on Adjudication, and Co-Chair of the ICPC of the IPBA.
