mediation Expertise

With a working knowledge of employment law and extensive commercial experience, I have successfully mediated in the following areas:

• Workplace typically focussing on the breakdown of working relationships

• Employment across a range of topics which include long term sickness and return to work, sexual assault, performance management and pending or failed grievances

• Company founders where founders discover over time that their commercial and life objectives are markedly different or where the relationship has simply broken down

• Partnerships with the most recent example leading to a change of leadership and governance within the partnership A sex discrimination claim and equal pay dispute in an international membership organisation

On occasion, I am not mediating but facilitating a difficult discussion.  The name attached to the activity is not that important, but the outcome is, typically mutual agreement on a potentially challenging subject.

Investigation Expertise

My investigation experience includes :

• A disciplinary hearing in a financial services institution

• An investigation about sexual harassment in a technology company, with related whistleblowing claims

• An investigation of bullying in a religious organisation

• An investigation relating to whether a final written warning had been breached for a financial services institution

• A grievance and related whistle-blowing claims in a financial services institution

• An investigation in a law firm of claims and counterclaims between two senior staff

• A grievance in a technology charity

Some of these matters were in the public domain or involved the relevant regulator. The majority were referred by law firms.