Charndell
Dispute management services

 

Victor Smith LLM
Chairman

Victor Smith: Chartered Arbitrator, Chartered Builder,
                    Chartered Quantity Surveyor

Academic and Professional Qualifications:

Chartered Arbitrator

Fellow, Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa)

Fellow, Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Fellow, Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators

Fellow, Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators

Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators

Member, London Court of International Arbitration

 

Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Building

 

LLM International Commercial Law (Distinction), Northumbria University

Post Graduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration, The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Post Graduate Diploma in Arbitration, Reading College of Estate Management

BSc Quantity Surveying, Kingston Polytechnic

                      
Panel/Listed Arbitrator with:

• The Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group
   

• The Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration
   

• The Board of Trade of Thailand
   

• The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London)
   

• The Dubai International Arbitration Centre
   

• The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
   

• The Korean Commercial Arbitration Board
   

• The Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration
   

• The London Court of International Arbitration
   

• The Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators
   

• The New Zealand Dispute Resolution Centre
   

• The Pacific International Arbitration Centre (Vietnam)
   

• The Singapore Institute of Arbitrators
   

• The Singapore International Arbitration Centre

Positions Held:

• Thailand country representative of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation - July 2006 to present date.
   

• Chair - Commission on Arbitration and ADR for ICC Thailand - January 2005 to present date.
   

• Secretary to the International Chamber of Commerce (Thailand) Arbitration Commission - June 2003 to December 2004.
   

• Executive Board Member - International Chamber of Commerce (Thailand) - May 2002 to June 2008
   

• CIArb (East Asia Brach) Regional Rep. for Thailand - May 2000 to June 2001.
   

• RICS Dispute Resolution Faculty Board Member (Asia) - 2001.
   

• Hon. Secretary of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Thailand) - June 2001 to May 2003.
   

• Chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Thailand) - 1997 & 1998.

Personal Details:

British nationality, born December 1957, current residence Bangkok, Thailand.

Arbitration Experience

He has been appointed as an arbitrator by parties and arbitral institutions and has acted as both a sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator. He has been required to determine construction disputes, international trade disputes, shipping disputes and general commercial disputes. He has been appointed to act as an arbitrator in both domestic and international arbitrations where the governing law has been English law, Thai law, Indian law or Singaporean law.

He has acted as counsel for clients in arbitration proceedings in Thailand under Thai law and the arbitration rules of the Thai Arbitration Institute and the International Chamber of Commerce [ICC].

He is Chair of the Commission on Arbitration for ICC Thailand, a member of the Commission on Arbitration for ICC Paris and the Thailand Country Representative for the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation. He has served as the Hon. Secretary of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Thailand).

ADR Experience

He has been appointed to negotiate commercial disputes on several occasions and has been appointed as a mediator to resolve a commercial dispute in Bangkok.

He was the Thailand Country Representative for the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF) from February 2006 to December 2010.

Academic Activities

He has participated in ICC advanced arbitration courses in Paris, France (PIDA and IAAP)

He is an Adjunct Lecturer at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand; his subject is Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for the Master of Laws Program for Business Law (English Program). He has been a guest lecturer on Arbitration and ADR at universities in Thailand (Chulalongkorn, Mae Fah Luang, Assumption and The Asian Institute of Technology) and have made similar presentations for professional bodies including ICC Thailand, The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and The Asia Business Forum. He is an approved Tutor / Examiner for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Entry Course.

Career Details:

Over thirty years employment in the construction Industry as a quantity surveyor, contracts administrator, contracts engineer, claims consultant, expert and arbitrator. He has been employed by international contractors, professional quantity surveying firms and contract consultants and has worked in Dubai, England, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Philippines, Qatar and Thailand. He has spent the last eleven years in Thailand as an arbitrator and dispute management consultant.

His experience in the construction industry has been gained on a variety of projects including, government housing, low rise housing, high rise accommodation, office complex, entertainment complex, hospitals, hotels, dams, irrigation projects, roads, water distribution, industrial complex, chemical process plants and power plants.

Employment History: