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Ewan Anthony

Ewan Anthony

Junior Associate

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Ewan joined the firm in June 2023 and is completing his first seat as trainee in our Real Estate Department.

Ewan’s role:

Since joining the firm, Ewan has completed a seat in our Real Estate department and undertaken a secondment [with the HS2 legal team][ with a major UK infrastructure project], gaining valuable experience in a number of legal areas including providing support on high-value procurements. Ewan has been based in our Construction department since January 2024 providing advice and assistance on a range of both contentious and non-contentious issues and working with NEC and JCT contract forms as well as bespoke contracts.

Skills and strengths:

Before joining Sharpe Pritchard, Ewan worked as a Case Manager for the Health & Care Professions Council, and as a Legal Research Assistant for Prof. Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou (Professor in Human Rights Law and Associate Dean for Research at the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool).  Ewan received acknowledgement for his contributions to the book, ‘Can the European Court of Human Rights Shape European Public Order?’ (2021), and the article, ‘The Use of Scholarship by the European Court of Human Rights’ (2024). He also gained further experience participating in the University of Liverpool Law Clinic, providing free legal assistance to vulnerable members of the local community.

Ewan graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2021 with a First Class Law Degree and completed the SQE1 in January 2023 scoring in the top quintile and has taken the SQE2 in November 2024.

  • Energy Sector
  • Local Government
  • Transport Sector
  • Adjudication
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Construction
  • Construction contracts
  • Construction disputes resolution, including adjudication
  • Infrastructure
  • Litigation
  • Mediation
  • Procurement
  • Public Law
  • Real Estate, Planning and Regeneration

In this article, we summarise some important considerations when negotiating standard form construction contracts based on lessons from two recent cases from the Technology and Construction Court (TCC): Workman Properties Ltd v Adi Building And Refurbishment Ltd [2024] EWHC 2627 (TCC) (Workman v Adi); Workman v Adi concerned a dispute regarding design responsibility under an…

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Those on the losing end of an adjudication often look to a breach of natural justice in order to avoid enforcement of the decision. Though certainly possible, successfully arguing such a breach can certainly be a tough nut to crack. Two recent cases help demonstrate where the threshold lies in a key area for natural…

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The Health and Safety Executive (“HSE”) has extended the deadline for the registration of Registered Building Inspectors (“RBIs”) to 6 July 2024 following industry concerns. Back in April 2023, the HSE set out its strategic context for the regulation of the building control framework as a result of the changes introduced by the Building Safety…

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Condition precedents are common in various commercial agreements. In this article, we discuss the court’s general approach to considering contractual condition precedents, and whether, particularly after the recent case of Lancashire Schools SPC Phase 2 Limited v Lendlease Construction (Europe) Limited and Others [2024] EWHC 37 (TCC), the court may be prepared to disregard them. What…

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