Our Mediators

Alan has been involved in mediation in one form or another for over thirty years.

Initially, his mediation was mainly concerned with workplace issues whilst he was in the armed forces, dealing with change management, working conditions issues and problems arising from workplace bullying. He was also heavily involved in health care mediation and complaints. Later, he worked on drawing up and mediating commercial contracts in a variety of fields, including logistics, construction and service provision, and the management of complaints for the Admiralty Board.

In 2012, he co-founded Hampshire Mediation, a panel of three mediators offering mediation across a wide range of subject areas.

He is fully accredited with the Family Mediation Council for family mediation, and with the Civil Mediation Council for both civil and commercial mediation and workplace disputes. He is a member of the Family Mediators Association.

Alan’s work involves the resolution of disputes arising over a wide variety of issues and against the backdrop of sometimes challenging sensitivities, which require novel and innovative solutions. He approaches these challenges diligently and with integrity, providing and nurturing an atmosphere of trust and respect for the participants.

He is an effective and able communicator and specialises in helping parties in the most intractable disputes reach mutually acceptable agreements, often against challenging time frames. He is experienced in mediating many areas, including the arrangements for children and questions concerning property and finance.

Alan has Bachelor’s degrees in science and in law, and a Master’s degree in international relations. He completed his civil and commercial mediation training at the London School of Mediation in 2012 and his family mediation training with the ADR Group, an affiliate of the Family Mediation Council, in 2013. He is a member of the Chartered Management Institute.

In his spare time, when he is not being pulled around the woods by his two dogs, Alan is a volunteer instructor with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme, teaching navigation and field skills to students at the local school.

Caroline has been mediating for over 18 years, mainly in the commercial and contractual areas. She has a background in international business and the fine art world, and is well versed in the challenges that face companies operating in multi-national environments. A qualified psychotherapist, she has extensive experience of dealing with the most difficult and intractable personal, workplace and family problems and is able to bring her extensive understanding and expertise to bear in successfully mediating the most difficult of disputes.

She specialises in working with families who find themselves with disputes between family members which are not related to relationships and divorce. This includes breakdowns in communications between siblings or between parents and children. She also specialises in workplace mediation.

She has enormous knowledge of negotiating and mediating multi-million pound contracts for the sale of high value items in the most challenging of markets.

Robert is an experienced barrister, arbitrator and mediator. He is recommended as a leading barrister in the legal directories where he is noted, amongst other things, for “getting to the point quickly” and for having a “great manner with clients”.

He is an accredited commercial mediator and is a TECBAR-accredited arbitrator, mediator and dispute resolution board member. He specialises in commercial litigation in a wide variety of areas including aviation and shipping, energy, construction, and insurance law together with financial services, trusts, partnership and fraud.

He is particularly experienced in cross-border and other jurisdictional issues both in the UK and abroad and he most regularly appears in the Technology & Construction, Commercial and Chancery courts in the United Kingdom.

Hampshire Mediation is proud to be associated with Conflict Mediation UK.