Rob Scott

Rob Scott is an Executive Consultant at ENS in the Dispute Resolution practice and heads up the firm's Insurance Practice Group. He is an Accredited Commercial Mediator (since 2014), and his practice focuses on Insurance Law.

He has decades of experience in the fields of insurance and insurance law (also having worked in the insurance industry), construction and commercial litigation / alternative dispute resolution, inclusive of arbitration, mediation and conciliation. He has been involved in high-profile cases in the fields of auditors' liability, tendering and administrative justice, defamation and construction insurance guarantees, as well as a number of cross-border construction and mining arbitration and mediation disputes.

His practice is focused on insurance claims and disputes. Rob acts for insureds, reinsurers and insurers, across all lines of insurance business, including assets all risks and business interruption; construction and engineering; cyber; financial lines covers inclusive of directors and officers liability and commercial crimes; goods in transit; on-demand insurance guarantees; professional indemnity; and riot, strike and political violence. His particular speciality is in the fields of construction and engineering insurance.

He was involved substantially in the business interruption insurance claims consequent upon the Covid-19 pandemic, the July 2021 Kwa-Zulu Natal political violence claims and the July 2022 Kwa-Zulu Natal flood claims.

Rob is the convener and coordinator of the ENSureAfrica team comprising insurance law practitioners from each of ENS's on-the-ground African offices, dedicated to providing insurance law expertise and services on the continent.

He holds a BA LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand, a Diploma in Insurance (Dip CII) from the Chartered Institute of Insurers, a Diploma in Marine Insurance (Practical Maritime Studies), a Diploma in Human Rights from the University of Johannesburg, and a Course Certificate in Construction Project Management from the University of Columbia in the City of New York. He is a Fellow of the Insurance Institute of South Africa (FIISA) and a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Accredited Commercial Mediator, and is admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Seychelles (non-practising roll).

He is a member of the President's Panel of Mediators of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), a Fellow member of the Insurance Institute of South Africa (FIISA), a member of the Chartered Institute of Insurers (CII), the RICS Training Faculty Team for the Diploma in Adjudication, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb), the South African Association of Engineering Insurers (SAAEI) and the Society for Construction Law (South Africa).

He is recognised by Chambers Global Guide for Insurance and Construction, by The Legal 500 EMEA for Construction and Dispute Resolution, by Best Lawyers for Litigation in South Africa, and as an Acritas Star Independently Rated Lawyer in 2018 and 2019.