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Position
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.
Career
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.
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Education
Sheffield University LLB
Law Society Finals Part 1 & 2
CEDR Mediator Accreditation
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