Arbitration Chambers, London and Hong Kong
Bruce Collins is an international lawyer who has practised extensively in arbitration for more than 36 years, specialising in complex commercial and engineering construction and infrastructure disputes. He has been the Australian Member of the I.C.C. International Court of Arbitration in Paris for the last six years and has been a member of several I.C.C. Committees. He has been admitted to the Bar of England and Wales, called by Lincoln’s Inn.
He is an adjunct professor of law and an honorary lecturer in International Commercial Arbitration at a number of institutions around the world. In the past several months he has been engaged by the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington to instruct arbitration practitioners (generally at an early stage in their careers) in Bahrain, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Colombo and elsewhere. Together with colleagues from Hong Kong he is presently drafting new Arbitration Rules for the Sri Lankan Arbitration Centre In September 2018 he will again deliver a series of lectures in Colombo to Sri Lankan and Afghan practitioners at the invitation of the United States Department of Commerce. This work has been part of his personal pro bono program. He is often requested to speak and contribute to arbitration related conferences around the world and in the last two years has delivered papers in Lagos Moscow, Bangkok, Belarus, Bahrain, Kiev, Hong Kong, Singapore, Istanbul, Jakarta, Seoul, Kathmandu and other cities. His pro bono work included teaching engagements in Indonesia and Nepal. On three occasions he has been appointed by the New South Wales Government as a Commissioner against Corruption to conduct public inquiries into corrupt conduct and to report to the New South Wales Government. He has been a Supreme Court-appointed referee and a Supreme Court-appointed neutral evaluator. He is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the World Sailing Judiciary and is on the Panel of the London Sport Resolutions body. He has been the Australian Olympic Appeals Consultant for the Summer and Winter Olympic Games for the last 10 years. He was appointed to arbitration panels for the Asian Cup in Sydney, the European Games in Bacu, the European Games in Seoul, and to an ad hoc panel set up to resolve disputes relating to the F.A. in England. He is a member of numerous panels of arbitrators including CEITAC, Beijing, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Korea and others. He is a member of the specialist Spanish Court, CIMA set up by the Spanish Arbitration Association in Madrid to hear and determine appeals from arbitrators. Recently he has chaired an LCIA Arbitral Panel hearing an international oil sales dispute, sat on an I.C.C. Panel and lectured in the University of Stuttgart Engineering Masters’ Program and devised and taught on two occasions a full course on international arbitration at the Pericles Centre for International Legal Education in Moscow. He was appointed by the New South Wales Government to chair and constitute the New South Wales Government inquiry into Insolvency in the Construction Industry which heard evidence from 100 witnesses and reported to the New South Wales Government.
As counsel he has appeared in international commercial arbitrations in China and appeared for the Australian Government in arms related arbitration in the United States. He was an adviser to the Australian Government in the WTO proceedings in which the Ukraine challenged the Australian Anti-Smoking legislation. He has appeared in superior courts ranging from the Privy Council in London to the High Court of Australia and the superior courts of each of the Australian States and Territories.
Chambers: Collins is a foundation tenant in Arbitration Chambers in Hong Kong and in Arbitration Chambers in the Temple in London
