Category Archives: Features

Paper presented to the Dispute Resolution Board Federation webinar By NG Bunni 4th March 2021 Dispute Adjudication Boards were developed by FIDIC following the successful American experience of Dispute Review […]

RESOLVING A DISPUTED PUBLIC WORKS FINAL ACCOUNT, with the assistance of a neutral third party, is as much a part of the construction process today as the physical setting out […]

YOU MAY RECALL my comments in May last year when the OGP first published guidance in relation to Employers making ex gratia payments to Contractors for costs associated with the […]

PRIVATE CONTRACTORS on public works contracts do not get gifts or favours from the government. For this reason, the publishing by the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) of a draft […]

NO ONE KNOWS WHAT the full impact of COVID-19 will be on the economy or wider society in Ireland. However, what we do know is that its impacts will be wide-ranging […]

John FFF O’Brien, principal consultant at John Farage O’Brien, tells John Murphy how he generally succeeds for his claimant clients in more complicated construction disputes taken to mediation and conciliation […]

Greystones businessman John O’Brien's company has won the highest award from Public Sector magazine for the second year in a row.  O’Brien’s company, John Farage O’Brien Ltd, which operates from offices […]

We have introduced a couple of innovations, taking the opportunity to revamp our website at the same time as we received our award from Public Sector magazine

John Farage O’Brien has taken the Legal Dispute Resolution award in the magazine’s annual Excellence in Business Awards, in recognition of the firm’s work in advising and representing those involved in construction disputes, many involving the public sector

To disagree with someone is a healthy and very human thing to do, says John O’Brien in this interview. It is our differences in opinion that make us individuals, and this fosters conversation and debate.