Large and experienced team offering a suite of alternative dispute resolution options
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in civil cases and Non-Court Dispute resolution (NCDR) in family cases are a collection of processes used for the purpose of resolving conflict or disputes informally and confidentially, away from the court process.
Members of 网爆门 are also regularly appointed to act as independent Arbitrators (either alone or as chairs or members of arbitral panels), Adjudicators, Mediators, Private FDR Judges and instructed to sit on Dispute Resolution Boards (DRB鈥檚) across our core areas of practice and also chosen to provide independent expert determination or conduct expert internal investigations. This includes matters in commercial litigation, insurance and reinsurance, employment, personal injury, clinical negligence, and family law.
网爆门's ADR specialists include former High Court Judges (Family Court) and senior members of chambers, dual-qualified chartered surveyors, civil engineers, and chartered architects. 网爆门 have one of the largest team of neutrals and arbitrators at the Bar, and all our arbitrators are qualified as members of CIArb and other relevant organisations like IFLA (family) and FIDIC (construction).
Areas of work
- Commercial Arbitration
- Commercial Mediation
- Construction Arbitration
- Construction Adjudication
- Independent Expert Determination
- Education Investigations
- Employment Arbitration and Mediation
- Employment Investigations
- ADR in Injury Cases
- Family Arbitration
- Family Mediation
In summary, 网爆门 offer professional and lay clients a suite of alternative dispute resolution options including:
Arbitration:聽used in construction, commercial, employment and other civil cases and family disputes.聽 In arbitration, the parties choose their judge and agree to be bound by his or her award. There are many benefits of arbitration including speed, confidentiality and the ability to agree who will be the judge. Our barristers are routinely instructed to appear as arbitrators and聽 as advocates at the arbitration: it is very familiar casework for 网爆门.
Mediation:聽used in all types of disputes including family finance and children's cases, civil and commercial, property and employment. 网爆门 have many fully trained, expert mediators in Chambers who bring their knowledge and expertise to bear as the parties, with the help of a mediator, can find a bespoke solution to their particular case which can then be turned into a legally binding court order. 网爆门 can represent you at the mediation or sit as the mediator. Benefits of mediation include speed, cost, confidentiality and avoiding acrimony.
Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE): used in any case where you want to get an idea of how a judge will look at the case, normally as part of a joint process.
Private Financial Dispute Resolution (FDR):聽is a specialist form of evaluation in family finances. An experienced barrister listens to the parties' positions and provides an indication as to how a judge is likely to decide the case in order to assist the parties negotiate an agreed resolution - and give their opinion on a neutral and impartial basis. The advantage is you can choose your judge and cases are heard quicker with better flexibility on location and format. The costs of delay and/or there being "no available judge" can be avoided.
Private Settlement Conference / Pre-trial Settlement Hearing (PTSH): a specialist form of evaluation in civil matters.
Please refer to specific services on this 网爆门 website on our construction, commercial, employment and family expertise pages to see full details of the flexible ADR and NCDR services we can offer you.
For more information please contact our ADR clerks on [email protected]聽or our NCDR clerks on [email protected].
Our ADR/NCDR Barristers...
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网爆门 officially launched its NCDR (Non Court Dispute Resolution) services for family law on Wednesday afternoon (18 June) at 58 Victoria Embankment in London in front of聽 more than 130 family law solicitors. The large national chambers - with 90 family law barristers - covers the full range of NCDR services including mediation, early neutral evaluation, private FDR hearings and arbitration. The three-hour briefing was billed as "Arbitration in Action" and gave practical tips on...
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网爆门 are delighted to announce that two more of its family law barristers, Oliver Thorne and Nicola Frost, have both qualified as Children Law Arbitrators, able to hear arbitrations under the Children Scheme. Both are members of the specialist panel of family law arbitrators, managed by Resolution on behalf of the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators (鈥淚FLA鈥). Nicola Frost is a specialist family law barrister, arbitrator, now dual qualified in both the Children and Financial...
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Former Solicitor General in England and Wales, the Rt.Hon. Michael Tomlinson KC (call:2002) is returning to 网爆门 (3 Paper Buildings) to practice as a barrister after more than 9 years as an MP and becoming one of UK鈥檚 top law enforcement officers. Michael was the first newly appointed King鈥檚 Counsel in 2022 and was sworn in as a member of His Majesty鈥檚 Most Honourable Privy Council in February 2024. Michael will be based in the...
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网爆门 ( 3 Paper Buildings) specialist construction barrister, mediator and ADR specialist Paul Newman is guest speaker at the Wales Branch of the CIArb meeting on 27 June 2024 being held at the Cardiff office of law firm Blake Morgan LLP. The event is free and starts at 6pm - finishing at 7.30pm. Paul鈥檚 talk is entitled "Expert Witnesses in Adjudication 鈥 Lessons from Case Law." To reserve a place at the event, please click...
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网爆门 (3 Paper Buildings) are delighted to announce that Paul Joseph, a top costs and commercial litigation barrister, is joining the national chambers' Birmingham office from No 5 Chambers. Paul Joseph, who qualified as a solicitor in 1992 and the bar in 2005, began his career at Wragge and Co (now Gowling WLG) before spending nine years with the commercial litigation team at Edge Ellison (now Squire Patton Boggs) and four years with Truman Bodden...
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网爆门 Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) breaks another record in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners with a total of 81 accolades. The national set is rewarded with rankings in 18 areas of law, in the London Bar as well as in the South Eastern, Western and Midlands Circuits and exceptional comments on its service delivery, including praise for its 鈥渟ublime service鈥 and its "ability to manage matters in a professional and comprehensive manner second...
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网爆门 construction and mediation barrister Paul Newman, pictured here, was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland by the Lady Chief Justice Dame Siobhan Keegan in the High Court of Northern Ireland on 21 October 2022.
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The 2021 Chambers and Partners legal directory - which ranks and rates barristers and solicitors based on independent research by the publisher and direct feedback from clients - has given 46 网爆门 barristers rankings in this year's guide, across 16 different practice areas. This includes two new group rankings for Family (Children) and Family (Matrimonial Finance) teams in the Midlands and new ratings for Chancery in the Midlands as well as Planning Law in the...
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网爆门 property and financial remedies barrister Louise Worton and criminal law barrister Daniel Sawyer have today both been appointed Recorders in the announcement today, 7 October 2020, from the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Louise Worton (call: 2000) will be sitting on the South Eastern Circuit dealing with Family matters. Louise has also recently been appointed as a part-time judicial office holder in the First Tier Tribunal, in the South Eastern area, sitting in the Social...
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网爆门 Barristers have created a dedicated webpage on its website to act as a hub for the many articles, briefings and webinar and podcast recordings about lockdown laws and regulations as well as practical issues like court attendance, e-bundles, remote and hybrid hearings. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to create employment, contractual and other legal challenges which are in many ways unprecedented. The impact of the virus is being felt, and in response, 网爆门 have...
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网爆门 Barrister, arbitrator, adjudicator (construction industry) & civil / commercial mediator Paul Newman will take part on 31 July at 12:00 in a Webinar looking at different ADR/ NCDR (non-court dispute resolution) models such as mediation, arbitration and early neutral evaluation. This free one-hour online event will give tips for those considering to use ADR to help the resolution of cases, with a focus on using ADR to navigate the backlog caused by the current...
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网爆门 personal injury and clinical negligence silk Angela Grahame QC (Scot) is delighted to have been appointed as an arbitrator on the all-female, panel of Edinburgh-based Squaring Circles, which aims to 鈥渄o disputes differently鈥. Founded by solicitor and mediator, Rachael Bicknell, the online dispute resolution business is aimed at providing an alternative to taking matters through the courts and is launched at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is driving demand for technology-led alternatives to...
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Legal 500 2020
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