Pump Court Chambers

Stephen Fielding is an experienced inheritance / probate mediator. He has mediated over 175 disputes, the vast majority of them resulting in a settlement. These cases include disputes involving inheritance, family provision, incapacity and undue influence claims. Most have had a high degree of emotion; many have been financially complex.

Stephen is an expert in keeping lines of communication open, is not afraid of emotion and is financially literate; skills that ensure that settlements are reached

The range banking and financial services disputes which Stephen has mediated includes:

• High-end commercial lending disputes,
• Mortgage related cases,
• Investment management disputes,
• FX trading disputes,
• Insurance and pension cases.

He has mediated a number of CCA disputes and is the author of Consumer Credit Agreements – a working handbook to Truth in Lending.

He has a background as a banking and financial services lawyer, advising banks and building societies. From 1986 he was a senior executive in banking organisations – heading up Midland Bank’s mortgage operation in the late 1980’s; Head of Financial Services at private bankers Coutts & Co, a partner and divisional head responsible for high end commercial and personal borrowing.

Fellow of the Civil Mediation Council Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).

City of London School MA Jurisprudence, Christ Church, Oxford