“Natural
gravitas.”
“A leading mediator.” Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession,
2006
Michel is
the former Head of Littleton Chambers, and has over 38 years’ experience
as a barrister in the field of general commercial, professional negligence
and employment work. He is an Accredited Mediator with CEDR and ADR
Chambers, and is a Chartered Arbitrator.
Michel regularly mediates
a wide variety of disputes both nationally and internationally including:
partnerships; banking; insurance and re-insurance; employment including
racial and sex discrimination claims and pension rights; solicitors’ and
valuers’ negligence; medical negligence and personal injury;
construction, engineering and commercial disputes; land disputes
involving rights of way and boundaries. He has mediated for the ICC,
and the AAA.
Chairman of the Bar Council ADR Committee, Michel was
a member of the working party which drafted the EU Code of Practice
for Mediators. He was asked to attend a recent meeting of JURI the
legal service committee of the European Parliament to give expert
opinion on the proposed EU Directive on ADR. He regularly conducts
training sessions for barristers and solicitors to enable them to
represent their clients more effectively in mediation and recently
carried out mediation training for the Hong Kong judiciary at the
request of the Chief Justice and arbitration training in the Kingdom
of Bhutan.
Michel is a recorder and sits as a deputy High Court Judge
in Queen’s Bench, Chancery and the TCC. He is also the author
of several articles on mediation in the English legal press and contributed
a chapter on mediation in employment disputes in “Mediators
on Mediation”. Fluent in German, Michel also has a working
knowledge of French.
