Connor Scott

Expertise Connor Advises Experience Highlights Career History

Associate

+44 (0)758 2500257

Expertise

Connor is a 3PQE Solicitor specialising in construction and engineering disputes at gunnercooke LLP. Having spent over eight years in DAC Beachcroft’s Tier 1 International Construction and Engineering Team (Legal 500, Construction, North), Connor brings a wealth of practical knowledge and hands-on experience to his role.

Connor assists clients across the construction sector on adjudication, arbitration, and litigation in the Technology and Construction Court. His experience includes acting in high-value and technically complex disputes involving major standard form contracts, including issues relating to payment, delay, defects, and professional negligence. Connor’s experience also encompasses mediation, and he has assisted on a wide range of construction disputes, including contract disputes under major standard form contracts and disputes relating to payment, delays, and defects.

Connor regularly supports clients through all stages of dispute resolution and also provides strategic advice aimed at preventing disputes arising on major projects. He works closely with contractors, developers, consultants, and subcontractors across a range of infrastructure and construction projects, delivering commercially focused advice and practical solutions in high-pressure environments.

Connor has particular expertise in acting for major housebuilders, contractors, and subcontractors in recovery actions, including cladding disputes, retention claims, and statutory demands. His experience across both contentious and advisory work enables him to deliver pragmatic advice tailored to his clients’ needs.

Connor Advises

  • National developers and contractors
  • SME developers and contractors
  • Professional design and management consultants
  • Major housebuilders

Experience Highlights

  • Successfully leading two adjudications for a local Council against a subcontractor relating to payment issues on legacy projects, resulting in a successful Decision and a favourable settlement for the client respectively.
  • Assisting in a large-scale disclosure exercise for a major housebuilding client involved in an ongoing market investigation, managing and reviewing documents across multiple tranches.
  • Acting in a high-value subrogated claim against a timber frame subcontractor concerning significant defects at a care home, leading to a favourable pre-trial settlement.
  • Providing pre-action advice and strategic support to a local NHS Trust, including drafting a Letter of Claim to encourage settlement between the parties.
  • Managing a subrogated recovery action for a local authority against a subcontractor for defective works at a local transport hub, including advising on international legal implications prior to issue at Court.
  • Acting in a complex commercial dispute between a large corporation and a supplier, including negotiating and drafting a comprehensive settlement agreement.
  • Advising on a large infrastructure project adjudication, including drafting advice notes and ancillary adjudication documents to robustly present the client’s position.
  • Acting as a part-time secondee at United Living (London), addressing ongoing fire recovery and project-related disputes and providing strategic guidance on subcontractor and payment disputes.
  • Acting in a high-value defects contribution claim on behalf of a developer and insurer against multiple parties, including an architect, employers’ agent, and multiple subcontractors, in relation to cavity barrier issues across over 400 residential properties.
  • Acting as an integral team member in a multi-million pound breach of confidence and loss of chance claim relating to a business opportunity to purchase and develop a site for a 1,000-pupil school, through to trial.

Supporting a team of three paralegals on a major disclosure exercise involving 120,000

Career History

Previous Law Firms

  • Solicitor, Construction & Engineering, DAC Beachcroft LLP (June 2023 – July 2025)
  • Secondee, United Living (now United Infrastructure), London (July 2024 – March 2025)
  • Paralegal, Construction & Engineering, DAC Beachcroft LLP (November 2016 – June 2023)

Memberships

  • Society of Construction Law
  • Solicitors’ Roll, England, and Wales

Education

  • Northumbria University, Legal Practice Course (LLB)
  • London School of Economics, Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons)

Other

  • Lexology: Embracing Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Legal Practice (30 July 2024)
  • Lexology: Construction Newsletter – June 2024 (26 June 2024)
  • Lexology: Slipping Up: Adjudicator’s Power Limits Clarified in MHL v. LJJ (26 June 2024)
  • Lexology: Lidl Great Britain Ltd v Closed Circuit Cooling Ltd (t/a 3CL) [2023] EWHC 3051 (TCC) – Navigating Jurisdiction: Court Emphasises Adjudication Flexibility in Recent Ruling

Expertise

Back to top

Connor is a 3PQE Solicitor specialising in construction and engineering disputes at gunnercooke LLP. Having spent over eight years in DAC Beachcroft’s Tier 1 International Construction and Engineering Team (Legal 500, Construction, North), Connor brings a wealth of practical knowledge and hands-on experience to his role.

Connor assists clients across the construction sector on adjudication, arbitration, and litigation in the Technology and Construction Court. His experience includes acting in high-value and technically complex disputes involving major standard form contracts, including issues relating to payment, delay, defects, and professional negligence. Connor’s experience also encompasses mediation, and he has assisted on a wide range of construction disputes, including contract disputes under major standard form contracts and disputes relating to payment, delays, and defects.

Connor regularly supports clients through all stages of dispute resolution and also provides strategic advice aimed at preventing disputes arising on major projects. He works closely with contractors, developers, consultants, and subcontractors across a range of infrastructure and construction projects, delivering commercially focused advice and practical solutions in high-pressure environments.

Connor has particular expertise in acting for major housebuilders, contractors, and subcontractors in recovery actions, including cladding disputes, retention claims, and statutory demands. His experience across both contentious and advisory work enables him to deliver pragmatic advice tailored to his clients’ needs.

Connor Advises

Back to top
  • National developers and contractors
  • SME developers and contractors
  • Professional design and management consultants
  • Major housebuilders

Experience Highlights

Back to top
  • Successfully leading two adjudications for a local Council against a subcontractor relating to payment issues on legacy projects, resulting in a successful Decision and a favourable settlement for the client respectively.
  • Assisting in a large-scale disclosure exercise for a major housebuilding client involved in an ongoing market investigation, managing and reviewing documents across multiple tranches.
  • Acting in a high-value subrogated claim against a timber frame subcontractor concerning significant defects at a care home, leading to a favourable pre-trial settlement.
  • Providing pre-action advice and strategic support to a local NHS Trust, including drafting a Letter of Claim to encourage settlement between the parties.
  • Managing a subrogated recovery action for a local authority against a subcontractor for defective works at a local transport hub, including advising on international legal implications prior to issue at Court.
  • Acting in a complex commercial dispute between a large corporation and a supplier, including negotiating and drafting a comprehensive settlement agreement.
  • Advising on a large infrastructure project adjudication, including drafting advice notes and ancillary adjudication documents to robustly present the client’s position.
  • Acting as a part-time secondee at United Living (London), addressing ongoing fire recovery and project-related disputes and providing strategic guidance on subcontractor and payment disputes.
  • Acting in a high-value defects contribution claim on behalf of a developer and insurer against multiple parties, including an architect, employers’ agent, and multiple subcontractors, in relation to cavity barrier issues across over 400 residential properties.
  • Acting as an integral team member in a multi-million pound breach of confidence and loss of chance claim relating to a business opportunity to purchase and develop a site for a 1,000-pupil school, through to trial.

Supporting a team of three paralegals on a major disclosure exercise involving 120,000

Career History

Back to top

Previous Law Firms

  • Solicitor, Construction & Engineering, DAC Beachcroft LLP (June 2023 – July 2025)
  • Secondee, United Living (now United Infrastructure), London (July 2024 – March 2025)
  • Paralegal, Construction & Engineering, DAC Beachcroft LLP (November 2016 – June 2023)

Memberships

  • Society of Construction Law
  • Solicitors’ Roll, England, and Wales

Education

  • Northumbria University, Legal Practice Course (LLB)
  • London School of Economics, Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons)

Other

  • Lexology: Embracing Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Legal Practice (30 July 2024)
  • Lexology: Construction Newsletter – June 2024 (26 June 2024)
  • Lexology: Slipping Up: Adjudicator’s Power Limits Clarified in MHL v. LJJ (26 June 2024)
  • Lexology: Lidl Great Britain Ltd v Closed Circuit Cooling Ltd (t/a 3CL) [2023] EWHC 3051 (TCC) – Navigating Jurisdiction: Court Emphasises Adjudication Flexibility in Recent Ruling

Connor's team
Warren Kemp
+44 (0) 7470 332 945 Email Warren
Sophie Thornley
+44 (0) 7795 470 910 Email Sophie LinkedIn
Jason Liu
+44 (0) 7305 688 453 Email Jason LinkedIn