CEDR

Mediation

Senior Mediator (retired Solicitor). Alan has over 40 years dispute resolution experience. He is a former partner with a high street claimant clinical negligence & personal injury law firm, then with DLA Piper & finally with Mills & Reeve. A highly respected practitioner widely recognised as a leader for mediating clinical negligence and personal injury claims.

Alan has a background as a lawyer, acting for both claimants and defendants, having started law in claimant clinical negligence/personal injury work before taking on defence work.

Alan is also a Court of Appeal Mediation Scheme mediator.

CEDR Accreditation as mediator: 2002

Practicing mediator: 2002 onwards

CEDR Panel: 2004

CEDR Chambers: 2012

Retired as a solicitor: 2019

Full time mediator and a lead trainer for CEDR Faculty: 2019 onwards

Alan has mediated over 500 cases, in excess of 400 being clinical negligence. He was chosen to mediate by both the claimant and defence teams in over 20% of all of the clinical negligence mediations conducted under the NHS Resolution mediation scheme in both the years 2023/2024 & 2024/2025.

English

Fellow of the CMC

CEDR Chambers

CEDR Faculty

Sheffield University LLB

Law Society Finals Part 1 & 2

CEDR Mediator Accreditation

Outside of mediation, Alan has his hands full with 4 children, 5 grandchildren (so far!) and a treasured King Charles Spaniel

Alan’s hobbies mostly centre around music, either listening to it, playing it or as a videographer, recoding live music.