Ashlea is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and a Director for Diales Middle East. She has over 20 years of experience and previously held the position of Country Manager in Hong Kong, operating its claims business.
Ashlea has been based in the Middle East and Asia Since 2007, working on large scale claims and expert assignments including airports, railways, hospitals, commercial and residential buildings, oil and gas and other infrastructure projects.
For the last 10 years, she has focused on expert commissions, having been appointed as the quantum expert on large projects in Asia and the Middle East and has acted as the lead assistant to the Quantum Expert on numerous commissions in the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Ashlea has also worked on a series of highprofile Arbitrations in the Middle East which involved supporting the drafting of Statements of Claim and Defence and Counterclaims.
Ashlea has been cross examined in the DIAC Arbitration Court and the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration.
In construction project disputes she has a wide range of experience encompassing: advising on contractual and commercial issues; contract interpretation; preparing extensive extension of time and cost claims; independent reviews of contractor’s claim entitlements and Engineer’s claim recommendations; detailed risk reviews of contractual agreements; preparation and development of strategies for dispute resolution, and assistance in amicable settlement negotiations.
Her claims experience is supported by a master’s degree in construction law and arbitration and time spent as a site-based quantity surveyor with large contractor organisations in the United Kingdom.
This expert has the following cross-examination experience:
- International Arbitration
This expert has recently been instructed by:
- K & L Gates
- Rajah & Tann
- BSA Law