Profile
Work Department
Position
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.
Career
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.
Memberships
- 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/)
Education
- 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
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