Practice Areas
Intellectual Property Law, General common law, commercial law, intellectual property, arbitration, ADR
Professional Experience
James Bridgeman SC FCIArb is a Chartered Arbitrator with over thirty years’ experience. He has acted as arbitrator, both as chair and sole panelist in over 500 arbitrations, tribunals and administrative proceedings. Including 80 construction, partnership, insurance, real property, distributorship, intellectual property arbitrations and adjudications, over 400 internet domain name references (UDRP), numerous statutory tribunals, appeal boards and professional regulatory determinations.
He has been appointed as an arbitrator/adjudicator/ mediator/neutral by party selection and by institutions including WIPO (Geneva), ICC (Paris), CIArb (London), NAF (USA), Nominet UK (Oxford, UK), TechBar (UK), Ministerial Panel of Construction Adjudicators (Ireland), Czech Arbitration Court (Prague). He is regularly appointed as a construction adjudicator and as a tribunal member to determine Internet domain name disputes.
He is a Past President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2018), past Chair CIArb Irish Branch (2005), former CIArb Trustee (2013-2017) and past member of the ICC National Committee for Ireland.
Arbitration Experience
Over thirty years James has arbitrated a wide range of commercial, contractual, and transactional disputes, including insurance indemnity, intellectual property, technology, Internet and ICT, construction law, commercial contracts, partnership, distributorship, negligence, professional regulatory law,
Issues in dispute have included matters of commercial contract and insurance law, construction law, international intellectual property rights, European and International law, International Arbitration Law, ADR, and regulatory matters. His experience spans appointment of arbitrators, issues of jurisdiction and international enforcement.
Recent cases include acting as sole arbitrator in an international professional indemnity insurance dispute arbitration under the Irish Arbitration Act 2010 (UNCITRAL Model Law) and as sole arbitrator in a contract dispute in England pursuant to the English Arbitration Act 1996, adjudicator in 15 construction disputes under the Irish Construction Contracts Act 2013 and the Scheme for Construction Contracts (England and Wales) Regulations 1998.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Chartered Arbitrator, He is a member of the training faculty for international arbitration of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (“CIArb”) and has delivered training in international arbitration for the CIArb in the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Turkey and Georgia. Each year since 2007 he has convened the Dublin Forum on International Dispute Resolution – a high-level round table on developments in the field and has been designated as Global Leader in international arbitration by Who’s Who Legal
Professional and Other Activities
- 1989 Barrister at Law (Ireland): Called to the Bar of Ireland.
- 1992 Registered Trade Marks Agent [Not presently practicing as a trade mark attorney].
- 1992 Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- 1998 Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- 2005 Chartered Arbitrator
- 2010 Barrister at Law (England & Wales: Call to the Bar of England & Wales (Middle Temple)
- 2012 Accredited Mediator, Mediators Institute of Ireland
- 2017 Senior Counsel (SC)(Ireland): patent of precedence from the Government of Ireland
- 2019 Barrister at Law (Northern Ireland)
Publications
Articles
- Arbitrator 101. Toolkit for ADR. Counsel magazine published by the Bar Council of England and Wales. July 2021.
- The Uncitral Transparency Rules 2014 for Investor State Dispute Settlement and Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations. ADR and Arbitration Review Vol 1, Issue 1, November 2015]
- Arbitration or the Commercial Court? End Game Resolution of Intellectual Property Disputes in Ireland. ARBITRATION Vol 76. No. 4 (2010) 626
- The Arbitrability of Competition Law Disputes 19 European Business Law Review (2008) pp. 147-174
Recent eBook Chapter
- Promoting Further Mediation (J El Ahdab, J Tirado ed.) Chapter 5 IRELAND ( eBook) International Bar Association. April 2015.
Academic Qualifications
- Trinity College, Dublin: B.A. (Mod.) History and Political Science
- Kings Inns, Dublin: Diploma in Legal Studies
- Kings Inns, Dublin: Barrister at Law
- Dublin Institute of Technology: Graduate Diploma in Arbitration Law
- Dublin Institute of Technology: Graduate Diploma in International Arbitration Law
- University College Dublin: Higher Diploma in European Law
- Trinity College, Dublin: Graduate Diploma in Construction Law and Contract Administration [Bunni Medal]