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Mediator Harvinder Singh Bhurji

Mediator Harvinder Singh Bhurji

The lead Mediator and Director of Effective Dispute Solutions Limited is Harvinder Singh Bhurji. Since 2002 he has been actively involved in alternative dispute resolution, as a Mediator, Arbitrator, Conciliator, Mediation Trainer, Tutor and Assessor.

Mediator Harvinder Singh Bhurji Mediation Qualifications & Accreditations

Harvinder is a law graduate, a Qualified Dispute Resolver and an Accredited Commercial Mediator through CEDR, the Academy of Experts and the ADR Group, an Accredited Workplace and Community Mediator through UK Mediation, a Mediation Tutor and Accreditation Assessor for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Commercial Mediation training programme and is on their approved faulty list for whom he teaches and assesses for in the UK and overseas, as well as a qualified Manager through the Chartered Management Institute and holds a Certificate In Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector.

Mediator Harvinder Singh Bhurji Mediation Experience

  • Mediated over 500 civil &commercial, workplace & employment and family disputes across all sectors.
  • Several testimonials recommending Harvinder as a mediator.
  • 90% success rate.
  • Mediated disputes with a value of a few hundred pounds to millions of pounds.
  • Over a decades experience.
  • Experienced in face to face, time limited, court referred & telephone mediations.
  • Mediated disputes between two parties as well as multi parties.
  • Harvinder fluently speaks English as well as Punjabi, understands Hindi and Urdu and regularly mediates with clients who are unable to speak English and only these languages.
  • He has written and submitted mediation articles to various publications.
  • Assisting with the research into Court based mediation schemes commissioned by the then Department of Constitutional Affairs.
  • He and Effective Dispute Solutions Limited hold professional liability insurance, copies of which are available on request.

Mediator Harvinder Singh Bhurji Mediation Panel Memberships

Harvinder Singh Bhurji is a member of the following;

  • The Academy of Experts
  • ADR Group
  • ADR Services
  • Association of Midlands Mediators
  • British Marine Federation Dispute Resolution Scheme
  • CEDR’s 125 mediation scheme
  • CEDR Exchange
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Civil Mediation
  • Council Clerksroom
  • IDRS Immediation
  • Manchester Law Society
  • Mediators In East Anglia
  • National Mediator Database
  • National Mediation Helpline
  • Oxcheps Higher Education Mediation Services
  • Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
  • Neighbour Dispute Panel
  • Sandwell Consumer Support Network
  • Sandwell Council’s Housing Arbitration Panel
  • Specialist Mediators

 

Jane Walmsley

Training

1998: CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) Accredited Commercial Mediator
2002: MATA (Mediation and Training Alternatives) Advanced Mediator Skills Training Course, Italy
2004: TeCSA (Technology and Construction Solicitors Association) Specialist Construction Course for Mediators

Mediation Style

Jane encourages people to take full advantage of the mediation process and the control which it gives them to explore all possible means of resolving their dispute and find pragmatic, realistic solutions. She works with participants on assessing all options and constructing safeguards to protect positions post-settlement, to allow them to make well-judged decisions in the light of available information. She is described as professional, facilitative, patient, persistent and perceptive.

Mediator Jane Walmsley – Experience

Jane has mediated and co-mediated in a wide range of commercial matters, from multi-million pound claims to claims brought in the Central London County Court and the Birmingham Civil Justice Centre mediation schemes. She also mediates in workplace disputes where no cash claim exists but where conflict between individuals has resulted in declining productivity, efficiency or profitability and made working life intolerable. Some examples of the cases she has mediated are:

  • Claim by a GP against a former Partner and the Practice for racial discrimination and unfair dismissal.
  • Dispute in a university between a senior academic and a member of staff in relation to changes made to a job description during maternity leave and a consequent claim for constructive dismissal.
  • Dispute in the same university between a head of department and a member of their staff in relation to claims of bullying.
  • Dispute in a college of further education in which a lecturer claimed that her manager was bullying her. The conflict had been going on for 2 years and the lecturer signed off sick with stress for 6 months.
  • Dispute between joint property owners arising after the breakdown of their relationship. While the main dispute was about the value of the property and therefore the amount to be paid, there were also a considerable number of relationship issues in play.
  • £2 million dispute between brothers about breach of fiduciary duty and the ownership of a family business.
  • £200,000 claim by a building company for non-payment of fees for work done during the construction of commercial premises.
  • £2 million claim for alleged negligent advice against stockbrokers.
  • Dispute between partners in a solicitor’s firm about the terms and conditions for one partner to leave the partnership.
  • Dispute between partners in an accountancy firm about the mechanisms for one partner to leave the partnership, including a £260,000 claim.
  • £250,000 claim for defamation by a businessman against a friend with whom he had entered into a project which had failed, resulting in the breakdown of their relationship.
  • Dispute between two electrical engineering companies about the purchase of industrial robots and the subsequent breakdown of a joint venture project.
  • Claim by a solicitors’ practice for non-payment of fees against a client for whom they were acting in an employment dispute.

Promoting and Raising the Profile of Mediation

1999 to date: A founder member of the Association of Midlands Mediators, a regional association of commercial mediators which:

  • provides mediation services
  • promotes mediation in the Midlands area
  • provides CPD training for members

2000-2002: Member of the CEDR training faculty.

Involved in delivering “The Lawyer’s Role in Mediation” training courses to litigation departments in individual solicitors’ firms, a barristers’ chambers, an insurance company and the Treasury Solicitor.

2002-2005: Member of the Birmingham Civil Justice Centre Mediation Scheme Committee. Participated in the establishment and monitoring of this court-led mediation scheme from its inception to its end due to changes in Government policy.

2005 to date: Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Mediation Accreditation Panel, acting both as an assessor and as a chief assessor.

2009 to date: Member of the MATA training faculty, providing feedback and coaching to delegates on the CIArb Commercial Mediator Training Course.

In addition, Jane has participated in a number of mock mediations, both as the mediator and as a party. These have been designed to demonstrate the mediation process and allow the audience to observe the strength, flexibility, and value of the process.

Mediator Jane Walmsley – Professional Background

Jane is a non-practising barrister. She was called to the Bar in July 2008.

Has studied a LL.M in International Commercial Law at the University of Birmingham, comprising modules in:

  • English law of the international sale of goods
  • Commercial conflicts of laws
  • International and comparative oil and gas law
  • International commercial arbitration.

In addition to her mediation practice, Jane runs a training consultancy practice. She qualified as a trainer in 1987 and has been training lawyers since 1990, initially as Training Manager with a large national group of solicitors’  firms and since 1993 as an independent consultant. Her client base includes many of the leading city and regional law firms. She is much in demand for communication and management skills training, particularly negotiation skills and presentation skills, and as a coach to partners and assistants on improving and developing the ways in which they and their teams communicate and work together.

Sundeep Singh Bhatia

Mediator Sundeep Singh Bhatia WORK HISTORY

2007- Date Proprietor of Beaumonde Law Practice

  • Conduct of employment law matters including unfair dismissal, discrimination and compromise agreement
  • Conducting/assisting at Mediations
  • Conduct of Immigration
  • Company and Small Claims court matters

Criminal consultant to Clive Gomes Solicitors Alperton conducting trials/PCMH’s and mentions as solicitor advocate and police station attendances.

1999-2006

  • Proprietor of Brent Law Practice specialist criminal defence firm in Neasden
  • Member of Serious Fraud Panel
  • Conducted several murder cases and one of the biggest VHCC cases involving conspiracy to defraud Microsoft
  • Conduct of employment law matters including unfair dismissal, discrimination and compromise agreements

1994-1999

  • Criminal Defence solicitor and duty solicitor at Gupta & Partners
  • Head of criminal department at time of departure

1993-1994

  • Solicitor at Palmers Basildon conducting repossession work for Woolwich Building Society

1991-1992

  • Articled clerk at Penman Johnson Watford

Mediator Sundeep Singh Bhatia QUALIFICATIONS

Mediator Sundeep Singh Bhatia qualified as a mediator in 2005 though CEDR & holds the title of CEDR Accredited  Mediator 2004 Advocacy – criminal cases 1995 Duty solicitor and court duty solicitor 1992 Qualifications as solicitor of High Court 1990 Law Society finals. 1988 Bristol Polytechnic – LLB 2i2 3 A levels 9 O levels

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

2006 to Date

  • Committee member Middlesex Law Society
  • Member of Solicitor Advocates Higher Courts Association

HOBBIES

Writing, Travel, Classical Jazz and Popular music, Formula One

Dr Michael Butterworth

Mediator Dr Michael Butterworth is available to undertake all aspects of Commercial, Civil and Community mediation, including claims in the County Court to multi-party, high value claims.  Mediator Dr Michael Butterworth is also able to advise, and negotiate, in most types of dispute and dispute resolution. In the last 12 months Mediator Dr Michael Butterworth has been involved in over 50 disputes and mediated in over 20 of them with a 77% success rate.

Professional Qualifications and Accreditations:

  • 1992 LLM (Cardiff) [Master in Law]
  • 2004 Accredited as a mediator by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 2004
  • MCIArb [Mediator Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators]
  • 2006 Accredited as a mediator by the ADR Group

Mediation Experience:

Commercial mediator in a number of disputes including, but not restricted to:

  • Breach of contract
  • Commercial & business, including franchising, finance, & sale & supply of goods
  • Misrepresentation
  • Public services including local authorities
  • Landlord and tenant
  • Supply of services
  • Transport including railways, airlines and aviation
  • Racial harassment
  • Wills and Probate
  • Banking services
  • Contractor
  • Property
  • Building works and services
  • Boundary disputes
  • Institutional
  • Professional disagreement, including partnership disputes
  • Professional fees
  • County Court time-limited (fast tract and multi-track) mediations
  • Multi-party mediations

Rajiv Chelani

Rajiv provides a professional service to his clients. He makes good use of his global commercial expertise gained over 23 years in various roles in 3 continents in corporate and community sector. He worked in varied project management, commercial and community leadership roles.

Having actively got engaged in community projects since 2004 and via his responsibilities being a local councillor, he trained to become an accredited mediator (SPC, London) and attained further Mediation qualifications from West Midlands Mediation and Transformation Services Level 3 of Mediation qualifications in via the Open College Network, UK. In the 22nd edition (2010) of Asian’s Who’s Who directory of British Asians, Rajiv’s name has been added.

Rajiv has taken on responsibilities such as Board member of Citizens Advice in Maidenhead, Committee member of community Partnership in RBWM, being on the victim support scheme at county level and Committee member of Affiliations committee in Mediators Beyond Borders. He has raised many a voices on social issues.

  • Mediation / Arbitration – helping conflicting parties in dispute to reach an agreement they are content with and avoid having to go to a tribunal or court hearing. The scope of Mediation ranges from Community, Commercial, Workplace, ethnicity and International disputes.
  • Restorative Justice Facilitation – It allows Victims and Offenders of crime come face 2 face and engage to understand each other. It reduces rates of re-offending and also the trauma faced by the victims.
  • General Facilitation – for meetings, especially where parties have difficulty reaching an agreement, for example, over a policy issue, cultural / diversity aspects.  Several stake holders could be involved.
  • Training – Train individuals and teams in Corporate / Public sector / NGOs in Conflict Resolution, Mediation and Restorative Justice.

Rajiv has developed his expertise through:

  • His work with Thames Valley & Greater London based mediation services.His training as an accredited Mediator with SPC, Regents College, London.
  • As a Sr. Manager in Global500 companies as front-end negotiator.
  • Restorative Justice Facilitator in Thames Valley (Berks, Bucks, Oxon)
  • Panel member of Community Partnership group in the Royal Borough.
  • Training in Equality and Diversity

Rajiv, besides being a Mediator is an active member of Appeal panels and member of steering committee of various voluntary organisations in the Royal borough and other renowned UK based bodies.

He is an elected member of Royal borough of Windsor and Maidenhead and represents on the board of CAB, Maidenhead, Youth Counselling service, panellist of Community Partnerships & Berkshire’s Victim support scheme. He is also a panellist in the Youth Offending Service in the Royal Borough.

Having worked with people of varied nationalities (in three continents), there is a strong cross-cultural focus which Rajiv can bring about. This has also helped him to be sensitive and resolve disputes based on different belief & value systems.

Some of his current assignments /engagement are listed below:

  • Mediator with Capital Conflict Management CIC, London
  • Mediator with Law Works, London
  • Facilitator with Thames Valley Restorative Justice service
  • Expert panel and author of Mediation in IGNOU (National Open Univ. of India)
  • Member of International affiliations committee of Mediators Beyond Borders
  • Member of UN Studies Association, Berlin, Germany
  • Member of Peace and Collaborative Development Network
  • Mediation panel member of Effective Dispute Solutions Limited

Details of representative Qualification / Trainings

  • Accredited Mediator – SPCP, Regents College London
  • Mediation – by CCM, London, equals Level 3 of OCN qualification
  • Restorative Principles training – trained by Thames Valley Police – 3 days
  • Victim Empathy – Trained by Thames Valley Probation Service – on going
  • Non Violent Communication – based on Marshal Rosenberg trng. – 2 days
  • Equality and Diversity – Training by Directorate of Equality and Diversity
  • Restorative Justice Consortium Winter forum – At Bullingdon Prison – 1 day
  • Workshop on Mediation in Muslim community – by Tony Whatling
  • Mediation Workshop on International dispute resolution – by Ian Lawless
  • Cultural aspects of Dispute Resolution – by Paul Clifford
  • European Mediation Conference @ Belfast – 2 days
  • Scottish Mediation Network, Edinburgh: delivered workshop on 26 Feb, 10

David Daly

Mediator David Daly SPECIALISMS

Property, Commercial, Employment/Discrimination YEAR OF PROFESSIONAL ACCREDITATION: 1979
YEAR OF MEDIATOR ACCREDITATION: 2004

Mediator David Daly CAREER HISTORY

Captain in Army legal Corps 1981-2 (Germany)
Experience in Solicitor’s Office 1982 (Orpington)
Employed Barrister L. B. Bromley 1983-6
Employed Barrister L.B. Southwark 1986-93
Barrister Arden Chambers 1993-5
Barrister Tanfield Chambers 1995 and continuing.

Advising and acting as advocate in a large number of disputes concerning property, landlord and tenant, local government, planning, housing, employment and discrimination, professional negligence, wills and probate.

Mediator David Daly  MEDIATION EXPERIENCE

Total Number of Mediations so far completed as mediator (110+). Please see also Bar Council Website where I am listed as a Mediator in their top category (30 +)

I am on the panel as a Mediator for the following DCA approved organisations: CEDR Solve, Specialist Mediators, ADR Net, Lawworks, Wandsworth Mediation Services and Devon and Exeter Law Society.

My longer mediations have tended to be to do with Land or Employment e.g. boundary disputes, Leasehold Reform Act disputes, Landlord and Tenant disputes, disrepair, stress at work, work-place, contractual bonus disputes.

Some examples of mediated Disputes where I acted as Mediator: a disrepair dispute which lasted 8.5 hours, involved 4 parties and was originally valued at £200,000. An agreement was achieved.

Dispute between Housing Association and Leaseholders over disrepair of 250 dwellings – originally valued at £5,000,000. The Leaseholders were represented by 5 individuals who had been the leading representatives of the Residents Association which had folded. They intended to reform the resident’s association and persuade the leaseholders to accept any agreement reached. Interestingly the normal position on confidentiality was varied at the start of the mediation to allow publicity to be given to any agreement. Agreement reached at £200,000 after 11.5 hours.

Claim for £200,000 for flood damage to Chemist’s shop. Settled at £103,000 after 8.5 hours-

Dispute between leaseholder and joint freeholders involving 4 parties – originally valued at £200,000. Settlement was reached on the day-3 parties (all freeholders and family members) would each pay £22,000 to 4thparty (a Leaseholder-one of the biggest property companies in London)for disrepair.

Leaseholder dispute in which a leaseholder claimed damages from the owner of the flat above, whose building works had caused the ceiling to fall in. The consequential noise and disturbance was the main subject of the dispute. Mediation settled on the day.

Commercial leaseholder claim arising out of the fact that the lease had made no provision for access to the toilets for office staff. Also included claim for disrepair. Settlement was reached on the day.

Dispute under Leasehold Reform Act regarding claim to purchase the freehold of a property worth £200,000. Settled on the day of mediation.

Bitter and complex dispute between two neighbouring building companies over rights of access and inappropriate erection of scaffolding. Mediation settled on the day.

Two neighbours had locked horns in the Chancery Division of the High Court on the issue of refusal of access to back garden and boundary encroachment. Settlement was reached on the day

Dispute under the European Agency Regulations involving payment of fees to an agent by his principal. Settlement on the day of mediation.

Claim alleging bullying and unfair dismissal against the Chair of the Management Committee of a Charity. The matter was resolved with agreement at the end of two separate mediation appointments.

Constructive dismissal and stress claim.  Settlement was reached on the day.

Trusts of Land and Family Provision dispute-estate worth £250,000. Deceased died at 42 leaving alleged partner, Mum and Dad and his two Brothers. Two Brothers denied relationship with partner existed over 2 years immediately before death. Agreed  partner should have house + £30,000 -no costs either side.

Freezing Injunction sought where allegedly negligent Solicitor had placed charge on house for unpaid fees. Freezing Injunction lifted by agreement. Company to whom charge had been sold receives £70,000 and charge removed. Mediation lasted 8 hours and occurred on the coldest and snowiest day in London for 18 years

Damages claim under Data Protection Act. Alleged by Claimant because she had been put on a list by a finance company in error as a bad credit-risk for 2 years she had lost the chance to purchase her Council house. Damages claimed at £360,000. Settled by agreement at £20,000 each side to bear their own costs.

Mediator David Daly  Court Schemes in which he has participated as a Mediator:

  • Hitchin County Court
  • Central London County Court
  • Exeter County Court
  • Guildford County Court
  • Basildon County Court
  • Uxbridge County Court.

I devised (using the DCA toolkit) and was the sole mediator for the Small Claims Mediation Scheme at Hitchin County Court dealing with commercial mediations of all sorts e.g. landlord and tenant disputes, disastrous holidays, contractual disputes, goods not fit for purpose, unpaid professional fees, building contracts etc. The Scheme finished in May 2007 with the appointment of an in-house mediator

Also a volunteer Neighbourhood Mediator with Lewisham Lamp

Personal Style and Feedback

“David has authority when dealing with procedural issues but he is not authoritarian. Parties find it easy to relax with him. He likes to work hard for agreement and does not let the grass grow under his feet.”

“I would like to personally thank you for your enthusiasm, flexibility and hard work”

“You are the “smiliest” mediator I have ever met!”

“I would characterise the mediator’s style as relaxed, informal, sensible and encouraging”

“He was very approachable, used plain language for litigant in person and gave helpful time warnings”

Training:

July 2002 – Mediation Course provided by the General Council of the Bar (1 day)
August 2004 – CEDR Accredited Commercial Mediator
April 2006 – CEDR Registered Commercial Mediator (Registered status no longer exists)
July 2007 – ADR Group Commercial Mediator

I have a special interest in time limited mediation and have appeared on a panel during a training event provided by Lawworks answering questions on small claims mediation alongside James Rustidge of Manchester County Court. My CPD Mediator Training is currently fully up to date

Mediator David Daly Memberships

Housing Law Practitioners Association
Employment Law Bar Association
Planning and Environment Bar Association
Administrative Law Bar Association
Civil Mediation Council
Mediation panel member of Effective Dispute Solutions Limited

Roderick O’Driscoll

Mediator Roderick O Driscoll, Rod is a Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator, a Notary Public and a qualified Solicitor of the Supreme Court.

Roderick was admitted as a solicitor in 1967 and has specialised in Construction and commercial matters for over thirty years. He became a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1991 and an accredited mediator in 1996. As well as acting in a private capacity in the above, he has for the last ten years or so lectured and run courses for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and others in all forms of ADR. His experience has primarily included the resolution of commercial disputes, all forms of building and civil engineering projects both here and abroad and, as a solicitor, he has had a full working experience of the Court practices and systems.

Educational and training:

  • Ampleforth College, Yorkshire
  • The Law Society
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Mediator Roderick O Driscoll Current Professional Activities:

  • Practising Arbitrator and Mediator
  • Legal Adviser on all ADR matters
  • Course lecturer, tutor, and examiner
  • Provision of Notarial Services

Mediator Roderick O Driscoll Legal Professional History

March 1957 to March 1962 – Articled to the Rt. Hon. Lewis Silkin – Minister of Town & Country Planning of Lewis Silkin & Partners, Stories Gate, Westminster, London

March 1962 Qualified Solicitor of the Supreme Court and became Partner in Lewis Silkin & Partners practising from London

March 1970 Appointment as Notary Public

1972 – 2001 Senior Partner in Roderick O’Driscoll & Partners, Maidstone, Kent specialising in commercial, industrial and building disputes principally in the High Court. Practising advocate in Magistrates, County Courts and Official Referee’s Court with experience of Court of Appeal and House of Lords. Involvement in Official Referee’s Court (now Technology and Construction Court) as advocate and instructing solicitor relating to disputes concerned with general construction matters. Instructed by many large companies in Europe and throughout the world dealing in a number of international cases.

2001 – 2008 Senior Partner in Gulland & Gulland, Maidstone, Kent as Head of Construction and Arbitration Department.

Mediator Roderick O Driscoll Memberships and associated activities

  • The Law Society of England.
  • The Institute of Chartered Arbitrators.
  • SICA FICA, an international organisation dealing with dispute resolution.
  • Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Panel member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Accredited Mediator (CIArb)
  • Professional member of Dispute Resolution Board
  • Assessor for Mediation Accreditation for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Member of the Law Society Arbitration Panel
  • Approved Member of the Civil Mediation Council
  • Founder member of Keep Talking Eu (mediation suppliers)
  • Approved Tutor for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Member of the Association of Building Engineers
  • Honorary Life Member of the Institute of Clerks of Works
  • Member of the Society of Construction Arbitrators
  • Member of the European Court d’Arbitage, Strasbourg
  • Lecturer and author of several articles on Arbitration Law
  • Co-founder of the South Eastern Dispute and Arbitration Centre
  • Vice Chairman of South East Branch of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Mediation panel member of Effective Dispute Solutions Limited

Mediator Roderick O Driscoll Previous experience and case work

Roderick has been involved in several hundred cases in his capacity of Arbitrator and/or Mediator both international and domestic, involving commercial, construction and engineering issues. He has gained close familiarity with all the principle forms of construction contracts. His experience extends to all types of building and civil engineering matters and he has a detailed knowledge of prolongation issues.

His commercial experience covers all forms of agreements including, amongst other subjects, intellectual property, partnership agreements, franchise agreements, Landlord and Tenant, and boundary issues.

In recent years, he has been involved both as advocate and as arbitrator in a number of international disputes, and domestic construction cases the values of which generally vary from £50,000 to in excess of £1m. His appointments, other than private appointments, are made by the Law Society or the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and he is a panel member of both organisations.

He is actively involved as a mediator receiving both private and Court appointments, and was a founder member of the Mediation Group of the South Eastern branch of the CIArb.

Ike Ehiribe

1982 – Called to the Nigerian Bar
1991 – Notary Public for Nigeria.
1994 – Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK.
1996 – Called to the Bar of England & Wales (Lincoln’s Inn)
1998 – Accredited Mediator of the Academy of Experts (Q.D.R.) Qualified Dispute Resolver.
2005 – Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.
2007 – Chartered Arbitrator.

Mediator Ike Ehiribe Relevant Panel Listing specific to Mediation and ADR.

  • The Panel of Commercial Mediators of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
  • The Panel of Commercial Mediators of the Academy of Experts.
  • The Panel of Commercial Mediators for Effective Dispute Solutions Limited.
  • The Panel of Neutrals of the World Intellectual Property Organisation in Geneva(WIPO).
  • The UK Patents office Panel of Mediation providers.
  • Communication & Internet Services Adjudication Scheme
  • IP & Electronic Media Panel of CIARB (www.communications-adr.com)
  • The Panel of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Leaseholders Dispute Resolution Scheme.
  • The Property Panel of the London Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
  • The Public Access Barristers’ Association (PABA) Mediation Panel.
  • Senior Adjudicator and Panel Convenor of the Tenancy Deposit Protection Adjudication Scheme.
  • Senior Adjudicator and Panel Convenor of the Adjudication Scheme for Home Builders.

Mediator Ike Ehiribe Recent Dispute Resolution Training and Experience specific to Mediation and ADR

  • Attended three day Construction Adjudication training course conducted by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in May 2004.
  • Attended mandatory training course for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Leaseholders\’ Dispute Resolution Scheme conducted by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in November 2005.
  • Attended one day Training for the Dispute Resolution Scheme of the British Marine Federation in March 2007 conducted by the Academy of Experts.
  • Attended Expert Determination Course conducted by the Academy of Experts in February 2009.
  • Attended two day training workshop for Intellectual Property Mediators in May 2009 conducted by World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva.
  • Appointed Assessor of Mediators seeking panel listing by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 2004.
  • Appointed by the Department of Constitutional Affairs to promote the use of Mediation in the resolution of disputes in May 2005 at the Bedford and Luton County Courts during the Mediation Awareness week.
  • Appointed Course Director and Lead Trainer for the Tenancy Deposit Protection Panel and other Consumer Adjudication Schemes by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 2007.
  • Delivered paper on the “Drafting of ADR Clauses in Maritime Contracts” at the School of African and Oriental Studies at the University of London in October 2008.
  • As an Accredited Mediator I have conducted Mediations in well over 200 civil and commercial disputes on the County Court Annexed Mediation Scheme, the National Mediation Helpline Scheme, the Cost Controlled Mediation Scheme and Ad hoc.
  • As a Chartered Arbitrator and Adjudicator I have issued well over 400 awards and decisions in civil and commercial disputes.
  • As Counsel I have advised and represented diverse parties involved in civil and commercial disputes in the County Court, The High Court, the Court of Appeal, domestic arbitral tribunals, international arbitral tribunals, court annexed mediation sessions, and ad-hoc mediation sessions.

Mediator Ike Ehiribe Other Relevant Appointments

  • Member the Hong Kong Mediation Council.
  • Nominated one of the Judges of the 2nd I.C.C. (International Chamber of Commerce) International Commercial Mediation Competition held in Paris in February 2007.
  • Former member of the ADR Committee of the General Council of the Bar (2006-2008).
  • Former Interim Chairman of the ADR Committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators from January 2005-August 2005.
  • Former member of the ADR Committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators from October 2001 – August 2005

Grant Goodlad

Qualifications

LLB: 1978
Solicitor: 1981
MCIArb: 2004
Called to the Bar: 2006

Education

Northampton Grammar School: 1968-1975
LLB Birmingham University: 1975-1978
College of Law, Guildford: 1978-1979
Bar Aptitude Test: 2006

Career

Solicitor, Dennis Faulkner & Alsop: 1981-1982
Partner, Dennis Faulkner & Alsop: 1983-2006
Barrister, Farrar’s Building: 2007 to date

Mediation

CEDR Accredited: 1996
CIArb Panel: 2005 to date
Member AMM: 2001 to date
Intermediation Panel: 2001 to date
Mediation panel member of Effective Dispute Solutions Limited 2010 to date

Grant’s background involves both commercial and contentious aspects of the law. His experience includes the handling of high volume personal injury claims and professional negligence claims for insurance companies, as well as non-contentious work including company sales.

More recently Grant has concentrated on contentious commercial and professional issues primarily personal injury and employment matters. He acts as an advocate in the Civil Courts and Employment Tribunals.

Grant has successfully mediated disputes in a wide range of fields including Construction, Commercial Contracts, Corporate Sale, Landlord and Tenant, Employment, Personal Injury, Professional Negligence, Malicious Prosecution and Wrongful Arrest, Franchise, Insurance, Travel and Housing. He has CEDR specialist training in Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury.

Grant also trains mediators and has assisted CEDR’s training faculty. He is currently a member of coaching faculty on the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators mediator training course to which he has contributed a paper on law for mediators.

Carolyn Graham

An accredited (2002) and registered mediator with Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) and accredited (2003) community mediator with Hackney Community Mediation.

A CEDR Solve Mediator and on the mediation panels of ADRChambers, Association of Cambridge Mediators, Effective Dispute Solutions Limited (EDSL), workplace mediation specialists Consensio and Common Ground (formerly Tower Hamlets) Community Mediation.

With a background in the arts & entertainment sector Carolyn applies skills learnt at the sharp end of doing business and combines commercial instincts with an intuitive approach and natural people skills.

She works cross sector and has mediated a wide range of disputes especially employment and workplace (wrongful dismissal; racial discrimination; defamation of character; breach of confidentiality; relationship breakdown; bullying and harassment, capability & performance issues, RTW /sickness absence). Also general commercial (several in arts/media – publishing; TV; film; music industry, theatre); property; inheritance and partnership dispute; landlord/tenant and community.

Carolyn has conducted multi-party mediations, team disputes, telephone mediation and time limited mediation.

Mediation Experience

Carolyn has experience in the following sectors:

  • Business-to-Business
  • Charities
  • Commercial Contract
  • Community
  • Education
  • Employment/Workplace
  • Housing, Landlord/Tenant
  • Media, Sports & Entertainment
  • Partnership
  • Public Sector (Government, local authority, Healthcare)
  • Wills/Probate

Case Summaries – by sector/dispute type

Banking/Corporate Finance/Business-to-Business

  • Dispute between a US based company and a UK based executive recruitment agency regarding disputed levels of commission monies due on an \’introduced\’ candidate
  • Dispute between two company directors and the outgoing Chairman regarding equity shares due on sale of company

Charities

  • Team mediation between 19 staff from one department of a major UK charitable organization
  • Mediation between two colleagues working for national charity, one returning from long term sick leave and where there had previously been allegations of bullying and issues of poor performance

Commercial Contract

  • Dispute between decorating company and a homeowner claiming negligent damage to property
  • Dispute between sports equipment manufacturer and PR consultancy regarding breach of contract/non delivery of services due
  • 3 way dispute between a building construction company, a garage and a construction worker regarding non-payment and poor workmanship
  • Mediation between legal firm and former client regarding non-payment for services rendered
  • Breach of contract dispute between owner of video business and former chairman and finance director regarding latter\’s entitlement to remuneration package/share of proceeds on sale of business
  • Breach of contract dispute between hotelier and company responsible for refurbishment programme
  • Dispute between PR consultancy and a film distribution company regarding non-payment of monies for services rendered
  • Dispute between two property management companies regarding non-payment of rent, repairs and maintenance

Community

  • Mediations involving noise, harassment, anti-social behaviour, pets, children, parking and disputes where cultural and generational differences contribute to the conflict.

Education

  • Post grievance mediation between a University and a senior lecturer regarding allegations of unfair treatment under the disability discrimination act
  • Mediation between two staff members in a primary school where complex personal relationships and issues originating outside of the workplace (including multiple criminal investigations and prosecutions and involving several other family members) had resulted in total relationship breakdown and mutual allegations of harassment within the workplace
  • Team mediation between 12 University lecturers where relationships and trust had broken down
  • Mediation between four colleagues working in a refugee student support unit within a University
  • Mediation between a University Departmental Director and his deputy to help re-establish working relationship following unsuccessful grievance taken out by the latter against the former

Employment/Workplace

  • Pre-tribunal race discrimination claim by employee of international IT company
  • Mediation between 2 remote team members of an International company: a senior manager based in Holland and a UK based direct line report over allegations of bullying and in order to help the line report reintegrate back into the workplace after stress related sickness absence
  • Post ET claim by senior partner of international company for damages for wrongful dismissal
  • Mediation between two staff members bringing mutual grievances against each other for breach of confidentiality, harassment and abuse of authority
  • Mediation between non-executive CEO and her secretary to help reintegrate the secretary back to her original department after relationship breakdown and subsequent 6 month secondment to another department
  • Mediation between joint CEO\’s of a theatre company where the relationship had broken down amidst highly emotional and mutual allegations of bullying and intimidation
  • Mediation between manager and line report in NHS trust hospital regarding issues of performance management and allegations of failure to follow due management process

Housing, Landlord/Tenant

  • Dispute between UK landlord and former tenant, now resident in the US, regarding non-payment of rent
  • Dispute between housing association and tenant regarding levels of compensation due following flood damage to property
  • Dispute between landlord and tenant regarding a disputed rental over-payment
  • Tenant/Landlord dispute with tenant seeking damages for disrepair and an order for remedial work

Media, Sports & Entertainment

  • Breach of contract co-production dispute between European TV company and UK film production company
  • Copyright dispute between songwriter/record producer and a former band member claiming co-authorship of song (subsequently recorded by top selling artist) and entitlement to ensuing publishing and recording royalties
  • Alleged breach of contract between actor and theatre company where the actor thought he\’d been verbally offered an engagement but the theatre company had not
  • Dispute regarding non-payment of royalties between author and famous TV personality and publishing company
  • Dispute between PR consultancy and a film distribution company regarding non-payment of monies for services rendered

Partnership

  • Dispute between two partners and friends regarding division of assets on dissolution of partnership
  • Dispute between two former partners regarding alleged breach of fiduciary duty and breach of intellectual copyright
  • Dispute between two partners following the joint purchase, refurbishment and sale of a property

Public Sector

  • Breach of contract dispute between public sector funding body and regeneration consultancy
  • Mediation between government department and former employee claiming compensation for alleged disclosure of confidential information
  • Team mediation involving 10 GP\’s, recently amalgamated from 3 separate practices into one group practice
  • Mediation between two colleagues in NHS trust hospital where relationship breakdown was seriously impacting on productivity of department and consequently, on financial stability and credibility or organisation

Wills/Probate

  • Mediation involving 9 family members regarding the mutual inheritance of a property abroad where some family members wished to retain the property as a family holiday home, some to run the property as a commercial concern, and some to sell
  • Mediation between mother and daughter regarding disputed division of financial assets following the death of the husband/father.
  • Mediation between twin brothers regarding disputed will of recently deceased mother

Personal Style and Feedback

Carolyn is a calm and clear thinker who can quickly help parties get to the heart of an issue. A creative and pragmatic mediator, she combines a willingness to think ‘outside of the box’ with a common sense approach that encourages parties to reach realistic settlement on soundly commercial terms.

Clients value her friendly, straightforward style, highlighting her ability to build rapport, her calming influence when tensions are running high and her ability to keep proceedings constructive and focused on achieving resolution.

Comments include:

“I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for providing the mediation and support last week, I cannot express to you enough how it has helped me” client

“the mediator was brilliant” client

“has good instincts about what matters and what is going on between teams and parties” client

“A very straight forward approach which never obscured the way ahead and left both parties able to decide on an acceptable resolution” solicitor

“As a means of finding common goals and moving forward, I cannot praise this process highly enough. It is amazing, it’s not a case of winning or losing, it’s a case of moving forward – something that I was previously unable to do” client

“Built rapport very well” client

“She is very friendly but quite firm and is good at keeping everything right on track” client

“(the mediation)… was very well run and the mediator did a great deal to put us at our ease throughout the process. She achieved the right balance of control and flexibility to make us feel that we were working within a structure and yet still had enough control ourselves to take it in the direction we were comfortable to go. She also had a very calming influence on everyone there”  client

“..dealt with the authority problems really well” client

“I was impressed by the ability of the mediator to grasp and summarise the essence (and the undertones) of what people were expressing” client

Professional Background

Carolyn worked for over 25 years in the Arts & Entertainment industry, working in both the commercial and not for profit sectors – including 10 years as Director at London’s Southbank Centre – with the management of people, of contracts, of relationships and of finance central to all of her roles.

Areas of particular experience include budgeting and financial management (turnover £6million); organisational development and change management; union/employee negotiations; internal/external stakeholder liaison and all aspects of staff management (including appraisal, training, disciplinary, recruitment, mentoring) and team building.

Other Dispute Resolution Experience

As well as her mediation and facilitation work, Carolyn delivers a wide range of in-house and open access training, seminar and workshop activities in mediation, dispute resolution and conflict management. A passionate advocate for the greater use of mediation skills within the workplace, she is a regular speaker on the benefits of mediating conflict and is increasingly being invited to create bespoke mediation skills training programmes for specific sectors and professions.

She regularly chairs and facilitates meetings including board meetings, Away Days and AGMs and is especially adept at handling contentious meetings, helping organisations reach consensus in challenging circumstances and ensuring that meetings deliver tangible outcomes.

Organisations worked with include:

Amnesty International; Arts Council England; At Work Partnership; British Transport Police; CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas Development); Cambridge University; Camden Council; Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Channel 4; Chelsea & Westminster NHS Trust; Comet; DCMS; Department for Work and Pensions; Dudley Group of Hospitals; English National Opera; Hammersmith NHS Trust; Independent Police Complaints Commission; Independent Theatre Council; Kingston University; Lloyds Banking Group; M.S. Society; Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust; Office for National Statistics; Oxford Brookes University; Poole Arts Centre; Rank Gaming Group; Really Useful Group;  Refugee Action; Royal Free Hospital; Society of London Theatres; Society of Medicine; Southbank Centre; Standard Life Investment; Theatrical Management Association; University of Wales Institute, Cardiff;

Skills and Interests

Carolyn has a working knowledge of French (‘A’ level and London Chamber of Commerce & Industry ‘Intermediate’ level). She is a CIPD qualified facilitator and is CMI trained in designing and delivering training. Out of work interests include Arsenal, singing in the choir Eclectic Voices, food and drink and collecting jewellery.