Mediation and Arbitration - Dispute Resolution

Keeping your business confidential

Arbitration is the confidential alternative to Court proceedings if no negotiated settlement of a dispute can be reached and has long been the choice in certain specialised fields.  Its objective is to obtain the fair resolution of disputes by an impartial tribunal without unnecessary delay or expense.

Although governed overall by the Arbitration Act 1996, there is greater flexibility than in Court proceedings and the parties themselves can agree on much of the framework of rules governing the arbitration. The Court will only intervene in limited circumstances.

Unlike Court proceedings, Arbitration proceedings are confidential and the Arbitration Award is enforceable as if it was the Judgment of a Court.

As a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the highest academic qualification of the Chartered Institute, David offers to act as Arbitrator in a broad range of disputes, including:

Legal:
Business and commercial, including professional and other partnership and contractual disputes. Personal injury and other civil litigation. Private Client and the administration of Estates. Interpretation of documents. Disputes across a broad spectrum.

Professional Services:
Contracts for services, professional negligence, inadequate service and costs disputes.

Property:
Contractual disputes. Commercial property. Landlord and Tenant disputes arising from Leases and ancillary documents. Rent review and renewal. Dilapidations claims. Commercial and residential development disputes. Planning: Agreements under The Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Section 106. General Conveyancing, including residential property and such matters as adverse possession claims and title and common land disputes.