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Meet our mediators

Every ProMediate mediator is chosen for judgement, experience and the ability to keep parties talking. Choose a mediator, or tell us about your dispute and we will suggest two or three names.

Peter Causton, commercial and civil mediator and Director of ProMediate

Peter Causton

Director of ProMediate (UK) Limited — Commercial, Civil & Workplace Mediator

Based in Cheshire — mediating nationwide and online

Founder and Director of ProMediate. An experienced independent commercial, civil and workplace mediator registered with the Civil Mediation Council, with over 100 mediations conducted since qualifying in 2009.

Principal areas

  • Costs disputes
  • Professional negligence
  • Contract disputes
  • Public sector contracts
Nichola Evans, commercial mediator and solicitor

Nichola Evans

Commercial Mediator & Solicitor

Mediating nationwide and online

Partner and Head of Litigation at Kuits, with over 25 years of commercial litigation experience, specialising in high value contract claims across the insurance, public and health sectors.

Principal areas

  • High value contract claims
  • Insurance disputes
  • Public sector disputes
  • Health sector disputes
Mark Manley, commercial mediator and solicitor

Mark Manley

Commercial Mediator & Solicitor

Mediating nationwide and online

An experienced mediator who has mediated hundreds of disputes, principally in commercial litigation, media, sport, intellectual property and contractual matters.

Principal areas

  • Commercial litigation
  • Defamation and media
  • Sport
  • Intellectual property, passing off and trade marks
Paul Lunt, commercial mediator and commercial litigation solicitor

Paul Lunt

Commercial Mediator & Solicitor

Mediating nationwide and online

A nationally renowned commercial litigation solicitor and veteran of more than 100 mediations, with a down to earth, empathetic and pragmatic style.

Principal areas

  • Commercial litigation
  • Company and shareholder disputes
  • Sports and media law
  • Commercial contracts
David Harris, commercial mediator and Partner at Chandler Harris LLP

David Harris

Commercial Mediator | Partner, Chandler Harris LLP

Central Manchester — mediating nationwide

An experienced and fully accredited commercial mediator and Partner at Chandler Harris LLP, bringing more than 35 years' experience of commercial litigation and dispute resolution to his mediation practice.

Principal areas

  • Commercial and contractual disputes
  • Company, director and shareholder disputes
  • Partnership disputes
  • Property, land and boundary disputes
Caroline Lowe, civil, commercial and SEN mediator

Caroline Lowe

Civil, Commercial & SEN Mediator

Mediating nationwide and online

A CEDR Accredited (Civil and Commercial) and SEN Mediator, Registered with the Civil Mediation Council and the College of Mediators, with a sensitive, practical and commercially focused approach.

Principal areas

  • Civil and commercial disputes
  • Insurance and civil litigation
  • Commercial and contractual disputes, including building disputes
  • Property disputes
Rajinder Rai, civil and commercial mediator and solicitor

Rajinder Rai

Civil & Commercial Mediator, Solicitor

Mediating nationwide and online

A practising solicitor of over 23 years' standing and accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator, with particular expertise in wills, probate and trust disputes.

Principal areas

  • Contentious probate, wills and trust disputes
  • Court of Protection cases
  • Contract and construction disputes
  • Property, boundary and cohabitee disputes
Janeen Achtar, civil and commercial mediator and senior lecturer in law

Janeen Achtar

Civil & Commercial Mediator, Senior Lecturer in Law

Based in Leeds — mediating nationally and internationally

A highly motivated mediator with over 15 years' experience of teaching law, the last five of them teaching commercial mediation. Facilitative in approach, with the ability to lead an evaluative mediation where required.

Principal areas

  • All types of dispute except family
Joanne Holland, Civil and Commercial Mediator at ProMediate

Joanne Holland

Civil & Commercial Mediator

Mediating throughout England and Wales, in person and online

Joanne Holland is a CEDR-trained and accredited mediator with extensive experience of civil, commercial and consumer disputes. She has mediated more than 1,000 disputes and has substantial experience in the development and delivery of mediation and ADR services.

Principal areas

  • Civil disputes
  • Commercial disputes
  • Consumer disputes
  • Contractual disputes
Steven Petrie, CEDR Accredited Mediator and Managing Partner of Ward Hadaway

Steven Petrie

CEDR Accredited Mediator | Managing Partner, Ward Hadaway

Mediating throughout the UK, in person and remotely

Steven Petrie is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and Managing Partner of Ward Hadaway, a UK Top 100 law firm, with extensive experience in commercial dispute resolution.

Principal areas

  • Commercial disputes
  • Breach of contract
  • Insolvency and debt recovery
  • Partnership and shareholder disputes

Other mediators are available upon request.

Not sure which mediator to appoint?

Send us a short outline of the dispute and we will propose suitable mediators with availability and a fixed fee.