Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

I qualified as a mediator in 2009 having previously led the UK forensic accounting practice at Ernst & Young and subsequently in a firm of economic consultants.  I am a Panel Member with Cambridge Mediators and ADR Chambers, as well as a couple of pro bono providers, LawWorks and Wandsworth Mediation Service. I am also registered with ClerksRoom.

Recent mediations include:

It was what it said on the label … and above all successful.
Mediation Client

• Negligence claim against a financial professional, complicated by the fact that the amount claimed was in excess of the PI cover in place
• Breakdown in relationship between management consultant and public sector client: the case was settled by finding a way to enable the client to derive additional value from the work done prior to the dispute
• Dispute between online retailer and search engine consultant.

Aside from mediation, I have more than 25 years’ dispute resolution experience derived from a range of  commercial disputes and regulatory or disciplinary enquiries, working as an expert witness, adviser or determiner, including:

Simon is alert to the “people” issues as well as the intellectual ones. He looks for the reasons why a situation has arisen.
Nigel Macdonald, Coca-Cola Hellenic

• Member, Nominet’s Panel of Experts determining disputes over .uk domain names (2001-03)
• Member, Institute of Actuaries Disciplinary Tribunal (1989-2001)
• Expert determiner for a dispute between the trustees of two merged pension schemes.

I have also experienced the High Court from the litigant’s perspective, in a David-and-Goliath dispute as chairman of a not-for-profit company suing a multi-billion pound, multi-national coproration.