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, a Member of the CEDR Panel of Mediators in 2002, and on the CEDR Solve panel also.

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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 and nthe RTA Portal Co. Ltd.

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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. He has recently added accreditation as a workplace mediator.

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Roger Broady

Roger is a solicitor with more than 35 years’ experience in, wills and inheritance, commercial contracts, sharehold / partnership disputes, professional negligence, and the falling out of neighbours and their boundary disputes.

He has held the position of senior partner at firm of solicitors in Kendal since 1989. He became an  Accredited Mediator in  2009.

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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, engineering, finance,  land and all aspects of the construction industry. He has recently been accredited by ADR Group as a workplace mediator.

Peter has undergone extensive specialist training in London, Rome and the USA and has conducted in excess of 90 mediations in the UK, with an extremely high rate of party settlement, including multi-partyand multi-issue disputes, since his registration in 2001.

He is registered with a number of associations as a mediator including, CEDR, ADR, RICS, CIArb, NAM, CCG and The Federation of Master Builders, to name but a few.

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Associates

Robin Stephens

Lindsey Bell

For details and profiles please contact Peter Whitman