Examples

Facilitation

John Sturrock acts as independent facilitator of the Climate Change 2020 Delivery Group

Multi-party mediation

Mediation is often used in multi-party commercial, professional, personal and organisational disputes

Agriculture and Farming

Crop spraying, allegations of damage to neighbouring fields causing significant loss

Farming partners - differences

Serious differences between farming partners, dissolution and sale being the alternative to a negotiated separation

Retiring partner

Farming partnership between two brothers in which one of the brothers became ill and eventually retired

Complaints and Banking

Individual customer of a bank with series of claims and complaints

Construction contract

Developer, employer and sub-contractors in dispute over the installation of a key facility

Professional negligence in construction

Claim for professional negligence in building and construction sector

Construction project

Facilitation among all key players at the outset of a major construction project and thereafter continuing as project mediator

Defects in house building

Differences over a house building contract.

Contractual dispute

Dispute between contractors with ongoing commercial relationship

Sale of goods

Parties at odds over whether an additional agreement had been entered into

Renegotiation of a commercial property deal

Renegotiation of a commercial deal due to a change in property values

Professional services in a commercial project

Dispute in a commercial project resulting in a claim for professional negligence

Commercial contract

Contract for the supply and installation of insulating panels for a processing plant

Public sector workplace

Workplace dispute concerning senior public sector employee

Workplace communication

Two senior employees in a public sector organisation were experiencing difficulties in communicating with each other.

Stress in the workplace

A team of 11 people were experiencing difficulties due to an employee returning to work after an absence of nearly three years having been off with stress

Family business dispute

Tensions caused by the death of parent and founder of a family business

Family Property

Difficult outstanding issues to do with property allocation on divorce

Access Arrangements in Divorce

Ongoing difficulties in relation to access arrangements after divorce

Executry claim

Claim by executors over alleged negligence in advice over farm leases.

Financial advisers - relationship breakdown

A serious breakdown in relationships in a firm of financial advisers

Financial planning services

Allegedly negligent advice on financial planning issues

Local government

Unresolved claim for provision of essential services

Health service management

Differences between members of a senior management team in the health sector

Medical negligence

Dispute following the death of a young parent, raising questions of medical negligence

Higher education management

Senior level management issues

Higher education and technology

Mismatch of expectations in contractual arrangement betweeh HE institution and commercial spin-out

IP dispute

IP dispute relating to the retail distribution sector raising issues about IPR and claims based on defamation and loss of custom

Multiple IP claims

Multiple claims for passing off, trade mark infringement, breach of copyright, misuse of confidential information and claim for £millions in compensation. International aspects.