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Queen’s Counsel, Barrister, Brick Court Chambers. |
Conducts mediations in English. Subject Specialties:
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DATE OF BIRTH
10 July 1955
EDUCATION
1966 to 1973 Dulwich College, Dulwich, London SE21.
1973 to 1978 Worcester College, Oxford University.
1978 to 1979 Harvard Law School, Harvard University.
1979 to 1980 Council of Legal Education, London.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES
1973 Open Scholarship to Oxford University.
1978 Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard Law School.
DEGREE
1977 First class BA Honours degree in law (undergraduate degree).
1978 First class Bachelor of Civil Law degree (postgraduate degree).
1979 Master of Laws degree Harvard Law School (postgraduate degree).
1980 Bar Finals, Council of Legal Education, London.
MEDIATION EXPERIENCE
Recommended as a mediator in both Legal 500 2006 and Chambers and Partners 2006.
“One of the most effective of the current crop of widely used mediators”… “is headed for absolute stardom” Legal 500 2006.
“A rising star” Chambers and Partners 2006.
“…he trained as a mediator in 1999 and is increasingly coming to be regarded as a top-rate practitioner in that field, winning plaudits for his lightness of touch and good humour as a mediator.” Legal Week, 22nd September 2005.
Qualified with CEDR December 1999.
MATA/CEDR Advanced Mediation Course 2004.
Member of the ACI Panel 2004.
Member of the CEDR Panel 2004.
Member of the CEDR teaching faculty 2005.
Member Sports Dispute Resolution Panel.
Member of the Panel of Independent Mediators (PIM).
He combines a substantial mediation practice with practice as a commercial litigator specialising in insurance and reinsurance and aviation work. Outside London he has mediated in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Jersey and New York.
He represents and advises clients participating in commercial mediation.
He lectures on ADR here and abroad and teaches mediation skills. He has spoken at each of the last two annual European Mediators’ Congresses.
His articles include “Juggling Act” dealing with current attitudes to mediation and “Opinion: Halsey v Milton Keynes” both published in the Lawyer.
In 2007 he delivered the Master’s lecture to the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators on the subject “Mediation – The Next Ten Years”.
LAW PRACTICE
Insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence, construction and engineering contracts, general commercial law and litigation. International arbitration, private international law, Lugano convention. Aviation. Competition and regulation. Sits as arbitrator in commercial disputes. Acts as expert witness in relation to English law in foreign proceedings.