Mark Jackson-Stops qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1973 and spent more than twenty years in private practice before becoming a full-time mediator in the 1990s. He trained as a mediator in the UK with CEDR, by whom he is accredited, and also with USA&M, then one of the largest US mediation practices, in Houston and El Paso, Texas.
Mark is an alumnus of the Program for the Instruction of Lawyers, 2001, at Harvard Law School under Professor Roger Fisher. He is on the mediation panel of the Court of Appeal, a member of the Dispute Resolution Committee of the Civil Justice Council, a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and was a founding board member of the Civil Mediation Council.
He is now one of the busiest and most experienced mediators working in the UK having conducted over 1000 mediations, covering amongst other subjects: Commercial contracts (including Sale of Goods)
Construction and property
Defamation
Employment
Financial services
Franchising
Insurance
Mortgage lending
Partnership disputes
Pensions and life assurance
Pensions and endowment mis-selling
Personal injury
Probate and Inheritance
Professional negligence
Rights of Way, boundaries and Adverse Possession
Shareholder disputes
Taxation
Undue influence
As a chartered surveyor, Mark’s experience covered principally property development and finance, landlord and tenant negotiations, property investment and management, and valuation. When in practice as a chartered surveyor, he held appointments as an expert valuer in a number of professional negligence cases and also acted as a Receiver under the Law of Property Act.
Mark Jackson-Stops has considerable business experience. He is or has been a non-executive director of a number of companies involved in nursing homes, property development and investment and public houses.
