Examples of Cases Mediated
Over the last five years, I have mediated disputes with a combined claim value of over £82m. Settlement rates have been in excess of 85% during that period. The claims remain very varied in terms of subject matter.
The examples given in the following dropdown menus reflect the types of cases that I have mediated over the last 10 years. I have mediated many more cases than shown here and have dealt with many other types of case since I qualified as a mediator in 1994, but space on the site makes it difficult to include them all. Please ring me to discuss any particular requirements in relation to a proposed mediation.
Agency
- Advertising Agencies
- Product placement in brochures
- Commission Claims
- Company sales
- Fine art dealers
- Property sale introductions
- National agency agreements
- Terminations
Charities/Not-For-Profit Organisations
- Housing Associations
- Property Charities
- Senior official termination
Churches
- Access rights to land
- Property disputes
Clubs
- Exclusion of members
Commercial contracts
- Agriculture
- Consultancy contracts
- Defective growing media
- Defective pipelines
- Defective plant
- Fitness for purpose of feed products
- Foot and mouth outbreak claims
- Third party customer losses
- Estate Agency
- Acquisition contracts
- Foodstuffs
- Fitness for purpose of fish products
- Food packaging contamination
- Stock and supply software
- Franchising
- Supply and costs
- Haulage industry
- Multi party contracts
- IT
- App development
- Design and supply of hardware and software
- Online supply of e-credits
- Warranty of computer components
- Motor traders
- Dealership sales and acquisition
- Car dealership cleaning contracts
- Commercial van hire contracts
- Motor vehicle supply contracts
- Supply of equipment
- Bespoke/premium furniture
- Commercial banking equipment
- Defective seating
- Kitchen supplies to national retailer
- Laser equipment to health care company
- Lift maintenance contracts
- NHS contracts
- Supply of Goods and Services
- Price variations
- Printing contracts
- NHS contracts
- Termination of contracts
- Training contracts
- UK government agencies
- General
- Commission disputes
Companies
- Directors
- Death in service benefits
- Fraud
- Personal guarantees
- Service agreements
- Severance payments
- Termination payments
- Inter shareholder disputes
- Death of shareholder
- Family company succession agreements
- Transfers from partnership to limited liability company
- MBOs
- Earn outs
- s459/994
- Exclusion of shareholders from management
- Petitions
- Insolvency
- Director dishonesty
Construction contracts
- Contract management
- Design and Build contracts
- Property development
- Remuneration of professional advisers
- Consultancy contracts
- Housebuilder/purchaser disputes
- Inter-professional disputes
- Main contractor/professional disputes
- Final account disputes
Design / Licensing
- Licensing 3rd party use of historic design work
Employment
- Disciplinary proceedings
- Pre-dismissal
- Restrictive covenants
- Breach
- Sex discrimination
- Sexual harassment
- Wrongful dismissal
- Directors Service Agreements
- Unfair dismissal
Engineering
- Shipbuilding, Yacht building, Aircraft components, Motor Vehicle components, rail rolling stock, piling, scientific instrumentation
- Defective manufacture
- Design and supply contract disputes
- Design issues
Environment
- Claims stemming from the causes of environments damage and the costs of clean up/remediation
Family
- Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act 1975 claims
- Relationship breakdown
- Management of family company following divorce
- Property and business disputes following divorce/relationship breakdown
Finance Companies
- Lender repossession actions (multi-party)
- Tracing/recovery claims
- Inter finance company disputes
Fraud
- Conveyancing fraud
- Directors
- Costs liability
- Supply Contracts
- Fraudulent dealings of suppliers
Healthcare
- Agency nursing contracts
- Equipment supply contracts
- Management consultancy
Insolvency
- Bankruptcy
- Corporate insolvency
- Liquidators’ claims
- Trustees’ in bankruptcy claims
- Administrators’ claims
- Asset disputes
- Alleged Misfeasance of Directors
- Factoring arrangements
- Alleged Misfeasance of Directors
Insurance
- Buildings insurance
- Indemnification for structural collapses
- Fire insurance
- Professional negligence of brokers
- Health insurance
- Cessation of payments
- Personal injury insurance
- Refusal of cover
- Commercial insurance Claims
- Fire claims
- Crane collapses
- Insurance company/solicitor disputes
- ATE disputes
Intellectual property
- Copyright
- Infringement and breach of covenants
- Design rights
- Infringments
IT
- Framework Agreement Disputes
- Contracts for the Provision of Mobiles and Broadband
Loans
- Repossession
- Personal Guarantees
- Residential and commercial properties
Local authorities
- Supply of services
- Supply of architectural services
Partnerships
- Joint ventures
- Limited liability companies
- Transfers
- Property ownership
- Ascertainment of property rights
- Relationship breakdown
- Termination disputes
- Medical practices
- Property development practices
- Solicitors’ practices
- Farming Partnerships
Pensions
- Trustees
- Distribution of scheme
- Investment advice
- General
- Erroneous payments
- Payment disputes
Personal injury
- Quadriplegia, Permanent Disability
- High-profile sports injury
- Causation disputes
- Quantum disputes
Professional negligence
- Accountants, Architects, IFA’s, Solicitors, Surveyors, Consultants, Designers
- Accountants
- Advice to family company
- Advice to property development company
- Architects
- Consultancy
- Contract administrator
- Brokers
- Insurance brokers
- Surveyors
- Valuation issues
- Failure to spot structural issues/defects
- Town Planners
Solicitors
- Failures to act
- Negligent advice
- Missed limitation
- Lender claims
- Partnership issues
- Partnership deed disputes
Property
- Damage to property
- Neighbouring building works
- Tree roots
- Housing associations
- Tenancy disputes
- Leaseholds
- Terms and termination of leases
- Residential leases
- Commercial leases
- Termination and dilapidations
- Managing agents
- Disputes with property owners
- Property development
- Contract disputes
- Overage agreements
- Overseas investment projects
- Sale
- Residential property retention provisions
- General
- Rights-of-way disputes
- Neighbour disputes
- Overage agreements
- Statutory declarations
Security documentation
- Finance company claims
- Personal guarantees
Sports
- Football
- Premiership player transfer contracts
- Premiership manager contracts
- Personal injury claim (arising out of dangerous tackle)
- Cricket
- Player disputes
- Disputes involving sailing and motorsports
Trusts
- Property trusts
- Family trusts
- Corporate trusts
- Breach of trust disputes
- TOLATA Claims
Wills and Probate
- Disputes over capacity
- Drafting of wills
- Negligence of solicitors
- Estates
- Disputes over Distribution of estate between
- Beneficiaries generally
- Siblings
- Cohabitee and children
- Stepmother and stepchildren
- Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act 1975 claims
- TOLATA claims