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Meet the Mediator with Michel Kallipetis QC

Our ‘Meet the  Mediator’ feature continues with Michel Kallipetis QC and will feature a different mediator in each issue. Here the mediators share suggestions on maximising potential for reaching a settlement (in their opinion), strategies they find useful in breaking a deadlock, a mediation they will always remember and some of the changes they have witnessed in the mediation landscape during their time practising in the field.

How does your background as a barrister benefit your work as a mediator?

It is of enormous help. I was fortunate to have a broad practice covering general commercial, professional negligence and employment. I sat as a deputy High Court Judge in QB, Chancery and the TCC for fifteen years which gave me an even broader experience of work.

What led you to move into mediation?

What types of cases have you been involved in as a mediator?

What are one or two of the mediator techniques that you find particularly useful in trying to break deadlock?

Is there a mediation that you will always remember? What difficulties or examples of excellence did it possess and how did you learn from these?

Do you have any tips or suggestions for participants on how to maximise the potential for reaching settlement?

What's the best part of your job?

What changes have you seen in the field in the time you have been practising as a mediator? Have these changed how you mediate?

When you are not mediating what do you like to do?

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