CEDR

Commercial Mediation

Shona is a full-time mediator.

She sits on CEDR’s Commercial and Workplace panels as well as their NHS Resolution Clinical Mediation Scheme panel. In addition, Shona has a strong private practice, mediates workplace matters for The University of Edinburgh, as well as special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) appeals for Prime Resolution and commercial disputes for Wandsworth Mediation Service.

Shona also sits as a foreign mediator for Brazil’s American Chamber of Commerce Arbitration and Mediation Centre (AMCHAM-Brazil) and is on the panel of CCAMI, a Brazilian organisation providing support to refugees through mediation training and services.

Shona is a dual qualified lawyer in England & Wales and the USA (retired from practice).

Before becoming a mediator, she had a successful legal career in corporate litigation and human rights law, initially at Freshfields, on secondment at The London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games working within the Intellectual Property team, and latterly working at Amnesty International, Hickman & Rose and INQUEST where she advised on numerous high-profile deaths in state custody cases.

The Law Society The American Bar Association Civil Mediation Council (https://civilmediation.org/mediator-search/?region_search=&expertise=&mediator_provider=shona+crallan) Scottish Mediation (https://www.scottishmediation.org.uk/mediator/shona-mackinnon-crallan/) AMCHAM-Brazil (https://liga.amcham.com.br/cam-lista-de-arbitros-mediadores-db/?_gl=1*9ie985*_gcl_au*MjUzMzM0ODQ4LjE3NTU3MDA2ODk.) College of Mediators (https://collegeofmediators.co.uk/)

2003: Hons. Glasgow University 2005: Columbia Law School, NYC 2005: Attorney for New York and US Multi-State Bar 2010: Solicitor for England & Wales 2017: CEDR Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator 2018: Community Mediation Training 2020: Accredited SEND Mediator 2021: CEDR Workplace Conversion