“Exceptionally
good at getting to the nub of disputes”
“Inventive
mediator of enormous skill”
“Sensitive,
balanced and focused”
“Widely recognised
for his strong communication skills”
“Tenacious
mediating style” Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession,
2001-07
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 board member of the Civil Mediation Council,
a fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, and is on the
Panel of Distinguished Neutrals of the CPR Institute for Conflict
Prevention and Resolution (New York).
He is now one of the busiest and most experienced mediators working
in the UK having conducted over 700 mediations, covering amongst
other subjects:
• Commercial
contracts (including Sale of Goods)
• Construction and property
•
Defamation
•
Employment
•
Financial services
•
Franchising
•
Insurance
•
Intellectual property rights
•
IT and computers
•
Mortgage
lending
• Partnership
disputes
•
Patents Pensions and life assurance
•
Personal injury
•
Professional negligence
•
Rights of Way, boundaries and Adverse
Possession
• Shareholder disputes
•
Taxation
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.
