John Uff
John Francis Uff CBE KC (born 30 January 1942) is an international arbitrator, advocate, engineer and academic.[1]
He graduated from King's College London (BSc (Eng); PhD) and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1970 where he was made a bencher in 1993 and Treasurer in 2011.[2] He was the founding Director of the Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution and Nash Professor of Engineering Law at King's College London from 1991 to 2003.[3] He was Chairman of the Public Inquiry into the Southall rail crash which took place between 1997 and 1999.[4] He retired from the Nash chair at King's College London in 2003 and was made an Emeritus Professor there. He was Vice-President of the London Court of International Arbitration from 2003 to 2008 and President of the Society of Construction Arbitrators from 2004 to 2007.
He was made a Fellow of King's College London in 1997. He was made a CBE in the 2002 New Year Honours and awarded the Gold Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2002.
References
[edit]- ^ ‘UFF, Prof. John Francis’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016
- ^ "John Francis UFF". Debrett's People of Today. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ "John Uff". King's College London. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ "Crash proposals 'not fulfilled'". BBC News. 8 December 2004. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
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