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Alex Troup KC
- Call: 1998
- Silk: 2023
Alex is an experienced mediator with particular experience of dealing with contentious trust and probate cases. He adopts a friendly but no-nonsense approach to mediations and has a high success rate for achieving settlements. Alex was one of...

Matthew White KC
- Call: 1997
- Silk: 2026
Matthew is a skilled barrister and accredited mediator with over 25 years of experience in personal injury litigation. He is highly ranked in the legal directories and is described as having a “fantastic attention to detail” as well...

Richard Stead
- Call: 1979
Richard has been a qualified mediator for over 10 years, and has extensive expertise in personal injury, clinical negligence and professional negligence claims, and property damage matters. Richard’s practice is also complemented by his highly sought-after expertise in...

John Sharples
- Call: 1992
John became a fully-qualified mediator in early 2015 and now specialising in mediating property, private client and related areas. He also lectures on aspects of mediation law and practice to solicitors in the South West and Wales. John...

Jacqueline Humphreys
- Call: 1994
Jacqueline is an accredited mediator and a member of the Society of Mediators. Her mediation skills and qualifications are fully applicable to any area of civil and private family law. Where parties prefer a meditator with specialist professional...

John Dickinson
- Call: 1995
John trained as a mediator at the London School of Mediation, was accredited in 2015 and now serves as both a mediator and as a representative at mediations. His approach to facilitative mediation is to control the process...

Julian Horne
- Call: 1998
Julian is an experienced personal injury barrister with expertise across the field. He is a qualified mediator and has also appeared as an advocate at mediations across the full breadth of his practice.

Harry Spurr
- Call: 2001
Harry is a leading specialist mediator in commercial, property, contentious trust & probate and other civil disputes, and a former barrister. Ranked as one of the UK’s top mediators by both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500, he...

James Pearce-Smith
- Call: 2002
James qualified as a mediator in January 2018. He is very experienced in representing parties at mediations, especially involving commercial disputes and claims for professional negligence, and is now able to use this experience to assist parties as...

Zoë Saunders
- Call: 2003
Having practiced in family law Zoë is well aware of the toll that the stress and uncertainty of litigation can take on clients and how costs can escalate. As a mediator Zoë will draw on her experience of...

Christopher Jones
- Call: 2004
Christopher qualified as a mediator in January 2018. His background is predominantly in trust litigation and advice, contentious and non-contentious probate applications, real property litigation (particularly in relation to easements, restrictive covenants and contracts for the sale of...

Jody Atkinson
- Call: 2005
Jody specialises in family financial work including wills and trusts. He is able to bring his wide experience in these areas to resolving the most complex and challenging disputes. Jody’s divorce and financial remedy practice focuses on the...

Ben Handy
- Call: 2008
Ben qualified as a mediator in 2015. His background is mainly catastrophic personal injury and clinical negligence work, but he is happy to mediate in any field. He is a Crown Court Recorder, having been appointed by the...

Oliver Wooding
- Call: 2009
Oliver is a trained mediator and experienced mediation counsel who deals with a whole range of legal disputes, but in particular contentious probate, trusts, and real estate disputes. He offers a practical and friendly approach that encourages parties,...

Charlie Newington-Bridges
- Call: 2011
Charlie qualified as a mediator in January 2019. His background is predominantly in commercial litigation, company and shareholder disputes, contract disputes, financial services/banking disputes, contentious probate applications and Inheritance Act claims but Charlie is happy to mediate in...

Adam Boyle
- Call: 2012
Adam is passionate about mediation and the benefits it can offer to the parties who participate in it. He trained as a mediator with the London School of Mediation over ten years ago in 2015 and has been...

Annie Sampson
- Call: 2015
Annie qualified as a mediator in 2015 and welcomes instructions to attend mediations as mediator or as a representative. Annie particularly enjoys the flexibility offered by mediation and the opportunity it provides to secure creative solutions to complex...

Brittany Pearce
- Call: 2015
Brittany is highly regarded for her detailed preparation; her ability to connect and communicate effectively with lay and professional clients; her focus, being able to move a party away from general grievances and towards the specific issues which...

Daniel Soar
- Call: 2016
Daniel is renowned for his meticulous preparation, exceptional interpersonal skills, sharp intellect, energetic optimism, and insightful analytical thinking. At the outset of mediation, Daniel helps parties identify their objectives and focus on practical solutions. His articulate and persuasive...

Jack Pankhurst
- Call: 2021
Jack is a user-friendly and adaptable mediator. He has a long-standing interest in mediation and ADR more generally. He completed his mediator training in 2022. Recently, Jack acted as a mediator in a complex Inheritance Act dispute, including...

Francesca D'Argenio
- Call: 2023
Francesca is a mediator accredited by the Society of Mediators. She welcomes instructions to mediate in all disputes under the broad commercial and chancery umbrella.

Guy Adams
- Call: 1989
Guy is a chancery and commercial specialist who acts in complex cases which often raise difficult and/or novel points of law. His commercial work includes banking, finance, commercial contract, company and partnership and professional negligence. He also has...

Richard Gold
- Call: 2006
Richard is a qualified mediator, having trained with the London School of Mediation. His mediation experience includes acting as a mediator in a complex probate dispute, in which a settlement was reached at the end of the mediation....

Nick Pointon
- Call: 2010
Nick is an accredited mediator and regularly acted in mediations within his substantive areas of practice, ranging from low value disputes to multi-day complex offshore mediations.
