Rosemary Jackson KC is in full-time practice as a Mediator and Conciliator following a successful practice at the Construction Bar from 1983. Rosemary joined Keating Chambers as the first female specialist building counsel at the English Bar and was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 2006.

Rosemary received the Clare Edwards Award for professional excellence and contribution to the legal profession serving the construction industry in 2018 and has since been awarded ‘Mediation Expert of the Year in the United Kingdom’ in the 2021 Lawyer Network Annual Awards, and ‘Lawyer of the Year – Mediation’ in the 2021 Who’s Who Legal Awards.

Clive Lewis is the Founder and Chief Executive of Globis Mediation Group. He trained as a mediator with CEDR in 2004. He is a business psychologist and author of numerous books. His most recent book ‘Toxic: A Guide to rebuilding tolerance and respect in a hostile workplace’ was recently published by Bloomsbury and featured as one of the top twelve business books of 2021 by the Sunday Times.

Clive served as Governor and Deputy Chair of the University of the West of England for six years, is a Non-Executive Director in the NHS and recently completed three years on the Board of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. He was awarded the OBE for public service in 2011 and was commissioned as Her Majesty’s Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Gloucestershire in 2012.

Michel Kallipetis is the former Head of Littleton Chambers, and has 40 years’ experience as a practising barrister in the field of general commercial, professional negligence and employment work. Now a full-time mediator he undertakes a wide variety of mediations in almost all areas of business and law both in the UK and internationally. He is President Elect of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM). He was the first Chairman of the Bar Council ADR Committee, a member of the working party which drafted the EU Code of Practice for Mediators, and gave expert opinion to JURI, the legal service committee of the European Parliament, prior to its adopting the European ADR Directive.

Michel is on the Singapore Mediation Centre’s International Panel of Mediators, was appointed to the Hong Kong HKIAC Accredited Mediator Panel and was one of the first CIArb Mediation Fellows in 2008. He was an appointed Observer for IAM and CIArb to the UNCITRAL Working Group working on the now Singapore Convention. Michel is a founder member of Independent Mediators Ltd. He has mediated over 1500 cases nationally and internationally.

Felicity is a full-time professional in dispute resolution and has worked as an independent mediator for more than 30 years. She mediates employment, workplace and a range of civil and commercial disputes.

Currently based in the UK, she began her career in South Africa where she continues to mediate and train mediator through Conflict Dynamics. She is CEDR accredited and the Head of the CEDR Faculty of mediator trainers. She is a CMC Fellow, IMI and IAM Certified. She is a founder member of Oxford Mediation.

Dr S Chelvan is a UK-based barrister with expertise in protection claims and LGBT+ rights. Chelvan’s approach to his practice successfully employs a symbiotic approach to strategic litigation, academic research and policy development, specifically in the area of Refugee law, and LGBTQ+ rights. He has provided training to Judges, lawyers, NGOs, activists and those seeking-asylum. He litigates from First-instance Tribunals to the Supreme Court, and the European Court of Human Rights. Awards include Legal Aid Barrister of the Year (2014), Attitude Magazine Pride Award (2018), 2022 Attitude magazine LGBTQ+ Trailblazer (Business, Finance and Legal sector), and Lifetime Achievement Award, Inaugural Outstanding Alumni Awards (University of Southampton, July 2022 “outstanding contribution to their field and to society … for tireless work in defence of human rights and support of LGBTQ+ refugees”).

Chelvan is ranked as a Leading Junior at the London Bar in Immigration in both Chambers Bar UK (since 2006), and Legal 500 (since 2007, Tier-1 since 2017 – “His expertise in sexual-identity-related asylum claims is world renowned” (2022)). Chelvan identifies as an #ActivistLawyer and lives in Kings Cross, London with his husband, and their two mini-dachshunds, Nomos, and Veritas.

Following diagnosis of HIV/AIDS in 2006, campaigned for disability rights in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as Diversity & Equality Officer and Learning & Development Adviser. Also elected Chair of the Disabled Staff Network. Now self-employed Consultant. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and of the Chartered Institute of Management as well as the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning.

Author of ‘Ripples from the Edge of Life’. Awarded Best Personal & Professional Coaching Company – South England and Disability & Inclusion Consultant of the Year – Greater London (2016 HR & Training Awards: CV HR Magazine). Co-founded the disability mediation standards for the College of Mediators. Finalist in the 2019 National Diversity Awards (Role Model for Disability).

Suzanna is a graduate of King’s College in London and after 5 years of secondary school teaching, she worked as a counsellor, then Head of Counselling, and Head of Pastoral Support, at the University of Greenwich, where she helped to develop and then lectured on the MSc in Therapeutic Counselling. Suzanna also offered mediation at the University of Greenwich and after retiring from Greenwich, trained as a Family Mediator with ADRg in 2011.

Her background encompasses counselling and mediation, conflict management, work-place and family mediation, student mediation, and community mediation. Suzanna was a former Trustee of Bromley Community Mediation Service. She is a member of FMA and Resolution, and registered with the FMC. Suzanna is an Accredited Family Mediator, Child Inclusive Mediator and a Professional Practice Consultant (PPC).

Suzanna has her own Family Mediation Practice in Bromley, Kent. She believes passionately about the benefits of mediation which covers empowerment, conflict management, dispute resolution and creative problem solving. Her family work facilitates separating couples to navigate together their futures: their financial settlement proposals, their child arrangements, their communication in the transition. She believes that the ‘voice’ of the child should be heard in mediation, where discussions are being taken which will affect their futures.

Her counselling skills background helps her in her practice. A successful agreement reached amicably rather than adversarily can indeed be therapeutic. A reduction in parental conflict through the mediation process also augurs better for the well-being of the children. Suzanna helps separating parents with their ‘Parenting Plans’ working towards a model of co-operative co-parenting agreement, where it is safe to do so.

Suzanna has given lectures and seminars on mediation and conflict resolution at the Universities of Greenwich and Kingston,and offered a Webinar on Family Mediation at ‘International Mediation Awareness Week.’ She has always enjoyed a training and developmental role and enjoys her PPC supervisory work, seeing mediators acquire new skills and knowledge with support and practice and self- reflection.

Having worked as a litigation lawyer for over 20 years, Suzanne came to the conclusion that there had to be a better way, so decided to train as a mediator.

In 2003 she set up Talk Mediation growing a panel of over 50 experienced mediators working nationwide.

With a strong record of successful dispute resolution from the panel and personally, Suzanne made the decision to work full time as a family mediator. She has earned an excellent reputation both locally and nationally for her empathetic but no nonsense approach. All of Suzanne’s work now comes from referrals.

CMC Workplace Mediator of the Year 2020, Marie Coombes, is a highly experienced conflict resolution and HR specialist with nearly 300 mediations completed with a 97% success rate. Her long career with Royal Mail and several years of consultancy work has resulted in her being experienced in a wide variety of industry sectors and often volatile working environments.

As a Mental Health First Aid Instructor, she is passionate about mental health and how conflict affects participants’ psychological safety. As well as providing conflict resolution solutions, Marie also designs and runs training courses on conflict, mental health and psychological safety, where she is well known for her engaging, authentic and supportive training style.

Victoria Harris LLM FRSA is former CEO at Mediation Hertfordshire, a community mediation organisation that, with the support of 48 accredited volunteer mediators, delivers mediation to those experiencing disputes in the community, within the family and in the workplace.

Victoria has a first class law degree from the University of East Anglia and a Master’s degree in law from King’s College London. Prior to moving to the community mediation sector in 2013, Victoria spent 15 years working as a solicitor and partner in private practice advising on employment law. Victoria is the author of the 2021 Report ‘Transforming Community Conflict’ which focuses upon the value of community mediation to the fields of housing, community safety and health.

Andrew Miller KC is a barrister with over 30 years of experience of dealing with and resolving commercial disputes both domestically and internationally. He now practices as a Mediator and Arbitrator both in the UK and internationally in a wide range of commercial sectors, including in the areas of commercial, company construction, energy, insolvency, land and property, property damage, insurance and reinsurance and professional negligence.

Andrew is the current NMA Civil & Commercial Mediator of the Year 2020/21 (Awarded September 2020).

Andrew has been involved in the mediation of disputes since 1995. He has experience of over 200 mediations across a wide range of disputes. Andrew has acted as lead mediator in commercial disputes valued from £10,000 to over £150 million. Andrew is a strong proponent of Early Stage Mediation.

Andrew has mediated disputes with parties in the UK, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Dubai, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Jersey, Lithuania, Maldives, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and the USA.

Andrew regularly speaks about mediation in the UK and internationally. Over the last two years he has been involved with a series of workshops and seminars in India and the judging of several of the prestigious Mediation and Negotiation competitions held in India. In January 2020 he was invited to speak at the Supreme Court of India on Mediation and its relationship with Litigation and the relationship between mediators and litigators.

Andrew Miller FCIArb also sits as an arbitrator and has been a trustee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 2019.

Bryan Clark is Professor of Law and Civil Justice in the Law School at Newcastle University where he is course leader of the LLM in Mediation and International Commercial Dispute Resolution. He has been involved as a teacher, researcher, coach and trainer in the field for over 25 years and has published widely in the field with particular interests in the interaction between mediation and the workings of courts and lawyers.

He is a Trustee of the Arab Mediation Centre, Chair of the Accreditation and Validation Panel of Relationships Scotland, former Board Member of Scottish Mediation and former Academic Committee Member of the Civil Mediation Council.

Formerly a practising solicitor (1975-2012), Jonathan Lux was the joint head of the arbitration and mediation group at Ince & Co. After 37 years at the firm, Jonathan decided to specialise independently in mediation and arbitration; he was subsequently called to the Bar and joined Chambers in 2013.

Jonathan is fully accredited by, and a member of, the International Mediation Institute (IMI) and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He holds the IMI diploma in cross-cultural competence and therefore has a particular understanding of the cultural aspects of commercial disputes across a range of jurisdictions. He has written widely on mediation, ADR and commercial disputes, and is regularly asked to speak and/or moderate sessions on dispute resolution issues at conferences worldwide.

He was named WWL’s Global Shipping and Maritime Lawyer of the Year in 2010 and 2011. In 2011 he featured in Lloyds List of Top 10 Legal Personalities, and was a finalist for the Lloyd’s List Global Shipping and Maritime Lawyer of the Year award in 2012. He has been recognised as a leading mediator by The Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal: Mediation.

Jonathan served as a UK National Mediation Awards judge (2018) and mediator (2020). He lectured on the LLM course on international commercial arbitration at Nottingham University. He studied on the Harvard University advanced course on mediating complex international commercial disputes. He is a fluent French and German speaker, making him much in demand for international mediations.

In 2018 Jonathan set up Lux Mediation, offering a wide range of dispute resolution services including mediation, co-mediation, early resolution, early neutral evaluation and arbitration. Jonathan is much in demand and receives regular appointments as mediator and arbitrator in relation to both domestic and international commercial disputes.

Stuart is a family mediator accredited by the Family Mediation Council (FMC) in all issues and a member of Resolution. He is also a Professional Practice Consultant (PPC). He is also trained in workplace, civil and commercial mediation. He has been a guest speaker at Resolution’s 2022 national conference talking about the international family and UK immigration law.

Stuart was previously a family magistrate in Leeds. Stuart works as a mediator both in the UK and abroad. He is the founder of the company, Direct Mediation Services which holds a Legal Aid contract. He was previously a director of The College of Mediators.

In 2018 Stuart was presented with a National Mediation Award NMA and in 2020 he chaired the working committee of the NMA.

Judge and former President of the High Commercial Court of the Republic of Croatia; President of Croatian Mediation Association; Mediation pioneer and founder of court mediation; Judge-mediator, and mediator in domestic and international business disputes, An arbiter at Permanent Arbitration Court at Croatian Chamber of Commerce; Mediation trainer (CEDR accredited), lecturer, speaker and mediation promoter nationally and internationally; an author of many articles on mediation; An author of Ph.D. thesis – “Mediation as Generator of Change in Judicial System and Legal Profession”; Well connected with numbered of domestic and international organizations; GEMME, CEDR, JAMS, JAMS International Weinstein Fellow 2010; CEDR, EBRD, IDLO & EJTN international expert/consultant; A member of mediation panels in Washington (ICSID), London (CEDR and Prime Dispute), Vienna (VIAC), Rome (JAMS International), and Belgrade; CEDR Award 2012 winner for ADR and Civil Justice Innovation; Croatian Mediation Association Award 2013, and Slovenian Association of Mediators Award 2016, 2021. Identified by the international directory Who’s Who Legal Commercial Mediation 2011-2022.

Stephen has been mediating shipping, insurance and energy disputes for over 20 years and a full time mediator for the last 10 years. He is the founder member of SeaMediation Chambers and devised its successful Early Intervention Scheme which seeks to introduce a neutral as a key player in a dispute’s early stages.

Kelly Stricklin-Coutinho is a barrister and a CEDR- accredited mediator at 39 Essex Chambers. She is also a member of CEDR’s Faculty, where she coaches and assesses. She practices in commercial dispute resolution, tax disputes and EU law.

Kelly has particular experience of commercial disputes with international aspects (including investor state arbitration), and disputes between government and commercial parties. She is also called to the Bar of Ireland.