“Gifted
mediator"
"Inspires confidence" and "gets results" Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession,
2002-2003
Elizabeth Birch was called to the Bar in 1978. She practices at
3 Verulam Buildings and specialises in commercial law including banking
and financial services, commodities, conflict of laws, insurance
and reinsurance, injunctions, international trade and transportation,
IT (information technology), joint ventures, jurisdictional disputes,
maritime, oil and gas, professional negligence and sale of goods.
She is a CEDR and BAE accredited mediator, Fellow of the Chartered
Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Lloyd's Arbitration
Scheme Panel.
Elizabeth qualified as a mediator and was accredited
in 1995 and has since sat as mediator in a substantial number of
commercial disputes including high value, technical and multi-party
disputes. She also frequently sits as arbitrator in commercial disputes
within her areas of expertise.
Member of the ADR Commercial Court
Working Party chaired by Mr Justice Colman into the use of mediation
and early neutral evaluation in the Commercial Court leading to the
existing Commercial Court Practice Directions on ADR.
Recommended
for ADR in Chambers and Partners’ Directory 2000-2001 and 2001-2002.
Mediation Style: Elizabeth conducts mediations in a style of friendly
informed discussion both between the parties and herself and also
between the parties themselves. She encourages the parties, individually,
to make an early accurate assessment of their risks in the litigation
and then tries to help them to come together to find the innovative
and more interesting commercial solutions that are often available
in mediation. She can be tough when required and her style may be
described as a mixture of facilitative and evaluative, as the situation
requires.
