Paul Randolph

Specialities

• Commercial mediation
• Commercial, Contract and Property Disputes
• Employment and workplace disputes
• Personal Injury and Professioanl Negligence

Career

Paul Randolph is an Accredited Mediator (CEDR June 1999 and SPC: May 2000), and a Barrister, called in 1971. He practises from Field Court Chambers, at 5 Field Court, Gray’s Inn, London. He is Course Leader and Lecturer on a Mediation Course at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology (SPCP), Regent’s College, London, which trains and accredits mediators. He is a member of the UK Bar Council ADR Committee, a Board member of the Civil Mediation Council (CMC), and is on the London County Court Mediation Committee. He was an External Examiner on Mediation at Cardiff University Law School and has for two years co-chaired the National Mediation Helpline Provider’s Forum. He is appointed to the Professional Standards Committee of the College of Mediators, and was Chair of LADR (Lamb Building ADR), a group of barrister mediators.

He specialises in Commercial and Contractual and Property claims, Employment and Workplace disputes, Family Property conflicts, as well as Personal Injury and Professional Negligence claims.

Paul Randolph is a highly experienced mediator, trainer, lecturer and author. He has mediated successfully in a wide variety of disputes involving Commercial, Contractual and Property claims, Employment and Workplace disputes, Commercial and Family Property conflicts, as well as Professional Negligence, Probate and Inheritance disputes, and family financial conflicts. A special area of expertise is in the psychology of conflict and conflict management. He has given presentations on Conflict and Mediation at conferences in the UK, China, India, Russia, Denmark, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Estonia, Turkey and Romania, to business and legal institutions, and Government organisations.

In 1998 he, together with the late Dr Freddie Strasser, an eminent psychotherapist, designed the Mediation Course: “Mediation Skills for Alternative Dispute Resolution”, at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s College, London. He created and wrote all the training materials, and since 1999 has been the Course Leader on the course, having now trained and accredited over 1000 mediators in the UK, in the Channel Islands, and Latvia. The course is also adapted for in-house training of mediators in large organisations.

The unique ‘psychotherapeutic’ model of mediation taught on his courses has achieved wide acclaim, and his book Mediation - A Psychological Insight into Conflict Resolution, co-written with Dr Freddie Strasser, was published in November 2004. It has a Foreword by the late Lord Slynn of Hadley, and was favourably reviewed in The Times by Sir Henry Brooke, former Vice President of the Court of Appeal, and current chairman of the CMC.

Outside interests