Mediators
Administration
North West Mediation Solutions is administered by director, Peter Whitman.
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John Hewison
John is a solicitor with more than 35 years’ experience, specialising in company and commercial law, including corporate governance, charities and sports law.
He has held the position of managing partner and is currently a consultant partner at one of Manchester’s leading firms. He became a CEDR Accredited Mediator and a Member of the CEDR Panel of Mediators in 2002.
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Jeff Lewis
Jeff is a solicitor with more than 15 years’ experience. He specialises in commercial contract disputes and warranty claims (with particular experience in the sporting and financial sectors), professional negligence claims and property litigation (including commercial landlord and tenant disputes) within one of the North West’s leading firms.
He was appointed as a deputy district judge in 2001 and became a CEDR accredited mediator and a member of the CEDR Panel of Mediators in 2000.
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Tim Wallis
Tim is a solicitor with more than 25 years of experience in many areas of the law, including commercial litigation, but particularly in the personal injury and insurance field, both for claimants (initially) and defendants (latterly).
He has held the positions of senior partner and chairman of one of the North East’s leading firms, working from its North West office. He trained as a mediator with the ADR Group and has been conducting mediations since 1994. He currently chairs the ADR committee of the Civil Justice Council.
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Mark Whittell
Mark is a solicitor with more than 25 years of experience, specialising in banking, insolvency, professional negligence and partnership matters.
He is currently area head of the commercial litigation and dispute resolution team at one of the UK’s leading national firms and is a CEDR accredited mediator and a member of the CEDR Panel of Mediators.
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Philip Hesketh
Philip is a civil and commercial mediator with more than 15 years’ legal experience as a solicitor, covering a wide range of areas, including employment, personal injury, landlord & tenant, neighbour disputes and partnership disputes. He is accredited as a commercial mediator with ADR Group.
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Peter Vinden
Peter is the managing director of The Vinden Partnership, a firm of chartered quantity surveyors specialising in the provision of quantity surveying, project management and dispute resolution services. He is a highly experienced mediator, having mediated in the fields of professional negligence, finance, manufacturing, land, commerce and all aspects of the construction industry.
Peter has undergone extensive specialist training in London, Rome and the USA and has conducted in excess of 70 mediations in the UK, with an extremely high rate of party settlement, including multi-partyand multi-issue disputes, since his registration in 2001. His specialist training continued in January 2010, following which he became accredited by ADR, as a work place mediator.
He is registered with a number of associations as a mediator including, CEDR, ADR, RICS, CIArb, NAM, CCG, Clerksroom and The Federation of Master Builders, to name but a few.
