Stephen Ruttle was called to the Bar in 1978 and was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1997. His practice has been predominantly commercial with particular emphasis on shipping, insurance and reinsurance work.
He was accredited by CEDR in 1998 and now spends almost all his time acting as a mediator. He has mediated over 700 disputes involving sums in dispute of up to £2bn. He has mediated disputes of every legal type save for family and personal injury. The balance of his time (15%or so) is spent acting as an Arbitrator.
Stephen is increasingly active in faith-based mediation. He has extensive experience of community mediation and is founder director and Chair of Wandsworth Mediation Service, a community mediation service. He is a fellow of the IAM; a member of PIM Senior Mediators and is a member of numerous mediation panels and Committees. For the last 8 years he has consistently featured among the top ten commercial mediators in publications such as Chambers, Legal 500 etc. “Specialist” areas of mediation. He mediates disputes of every type but most come from the following areas:
• Insurance
• Reinsurance
• Shipping
• Professional negligence
• Pensions
• IT
• Banking
• Financial services
• Construction
• IP
• General commercial
Stephen is wholly committed to mediation as the principal way of resolving almost all disputes.
