Alternative Dispute Resolution (Mediation Adjudication & Arbitration)
Our Principal trained as a commercial mediator with ADR Chambers (UK) Ltd in 2003 and is now on the panels of Clerksroom, Talk Mediation, MTVM, CMDS and EDSL. He has represented a number of clients in commercial mediations, and has achieved settlements at or shortly afterwards in the overwhelming majority of them. Since 2006, he has undertaken several appointments as lead mediator and co-mediator in disputes between builders and employers, contractors and sub-contractors, and professionals and clients. He has also qualified as a workplace mediator (2009) and a family mediator (2010).
Prior to this, in 1998, our Principal trained as a neighbourhood mediator with the Southwark Mediation Centre. He has since mediated numerous such disputes. These disputes are rarely about money, and the focus is firmly upon finding a way forward in a relationship that has come under strain as a result of interpersonal conflict. This in turn grew out of 3 years' work as executive secretary of a conciliation project in Rwanda, which began immediately after the genocide of April-July 1994 and culminated in a conference in the Rwandan capital Kigali in August 1997 on the possibility of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Rwanda to help find a way forward in such relationships.
We have experience of representing successfully referring and responding parties in statutory and contractual adjudications ranging in value from a few thousand pounds to several million.
We are also familiar with arbitration and expert determination as alternatives to litigation. Our arbitration experience covers domestic arbitration under the Arbitration Act 1996 and international arbitration. We can operate under hybrid processes where a switch is made from adjudication or arbitration to mediation or vice versa by agreement between the parties.
