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Commercial Mediation Workshop & Networking
This workshop enables delegates to hear from trained mediators on how effective mediation can be a useful method to resolve disputes quickly and affordably for the parties involved. Delegates will also have the opportunity to practise their mediation skills in several prepared scenarios designed to highlight strategies used in resolving disputes via mediation.
The workshop will include the provision of sandwiches, biscuits, tea and coffee. The workshop is in the William Penn room of the Priory Rooms Meeting and Conference Centre. Please see page 3 of the flyer for the map of the venue.
Price and Payment Options:
The cost of attendance is £12.00. Places are limited strictly on a first come first served basis and will be confirmed on receipt of payment. For details on how to register, please click here.
For any further queries about the event, please contact the West Midlands Chairman Sameer Shinh at s.k.shinh@googlemail.com.
Event Speakers
David Leigh-Hunt is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a trained civil mediator. David has been a practising solicitor engaged in prosecutions, later undertaking defence work, building up experience in a variety of litigation and ran his own legal firm for over 20 years. From advising and representing clients on legal aid in the days when it was available, David became sensitive to issues of the cost to people and businesses to engage in the legal system to argue for their rights. As a keen advocate of mediation based on his experiences as a Solicitor, David provides services of arbitration and civil mediation (other than domestic or family matters) and support and advice for solicitors with professional problems or issues with the professional Regulator for matters arising in England under English law. Outside the law and alternative dispute resolution, David is an elected Councillor with a district council where he deals with community issues and the problems of local people.
James Ng is a CEDR Accredited Mediator (since 2008) and a Mediator of CCPIT, People's Republic of China (since 2009). He is a Committee Member of the CIArb's West Midlands Branch. He has more than 20 years’ experience in all forms of dispute resolution mechanisms including Court proceedings, International Arbitration and Mediation. James has spoken on these topics at conferences in the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China (including Hong Kong). James is fully conversant in English, Mandarin (and two other major Chinese languages, Cantonese and Hokkien), Malay and Indonesian languages. His main working language is English.