Judith Kelbie

"Judith has a very impressive settlement rate at mediation in seemingly intractable disputes and brings an abundance of skill to the process. She is able to put people at their ease whilst also robustly reality testing to explore common interests and risk."

Professional

Judith is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and a Fellow of the Civil Mediation Council (CMC). She  has been mediating for over 20 years.  She is a non-practicing Solicitor.  She trained with Stitt, Feld and Handy, ADR Chambers and JAMS. Judith is always well prepared for mediation and has the patience and stamina to work with a wide range of people and organisations across the full spectrum of disputes. She is tenatious in her approach, whilst personalble and engaging. She  encourages participants to crteate and own outcomes that work for them.

She mediates a wide range of disputes including:

• Insurance and reinsurance
• Workplace and employment
• Professional negligence
• Inheritance 
• Property, land, planning, neighbour and boundary disputes
• Occupational stress, personal injury and clinical negligence
• Partnership, shareholder, boardroom and company disputes
• Civil and commercial cases both pre-litigationo and post litigation
• Legal costs dsputes
• Clergy/laity
• Theatre and Arts disputes

Memberships

• Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Fellow of Civil Mediation Council
• Trust Mediation mediator

Education

Judith is a qualified engineer, ex-Royal Navy officer and a non-practicing Solicitor. 

History

Judith trained as a mediator in 2004. She has mediated hundreds of seemingly intractable disputes. She is instructed in modest to multi million pound cases. She is particularly skilled in multi party and and workplace team mediations, the largest to date involving 26 participants. She mediates the full range of civil and commercial disputes and is particularly sought after in high level workplace disputes.

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"Judith is passionate about mediation! She has an excellent grasp of both the papers, the legal issues and individual concerns. She was patient, encouraging and empathetic."

"Judith is able to quickly grasp technical matters whilst also managing deep emotion."

"As a believer of self-determination, Judith encouraged us to generate a sustainable and durable outcome that we owned."

"A master (or mistress) of mediation."

"As ever, Judith was a pleasure to work with. She has a firm grasp of the law and evidence but is also able to tap into clients to achieve exceptional results."

"Exactly what we needed to move forward."

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