Mark Jackson-Stops qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1973 and spent more than twenty years in private practice before becoming a full-time mediator in the 1990s. He trained as a mediator in the UK with CEDR, by whom he is accredited, and also with USA&M, then one of the largest US mediation practices, in Houston and El Paso, Texas.

Mark is an alumnus of the Program for the Instruction of Lawyers, 2001, at Harvard Law School under Professor Roger Fisher. He is on the mediation panel of the Court of Appeal, is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and was a founding board member of the Civil Mediation Council. He is also a member emeritus of PIM Senior Mediators.

He is now one of the busiest and most experienced mediators working in the UK having conducted well over 1000 mediations, covering amongst other subjects:

Commercial contracts (including Sale of

Pensions and insurance mis-selling Goods)

Personal injury

Construction and property

Probate and Inheritance

Defamation

Professional negligence

Employment

Rights of Way, boundaries and Adverse

Financial services Possession

Franchising

Shareholder disputes

Insurance

Taxation

Mortgage lending

Undue influence

Partnership disputes

Pensions and life assurance

As a chartered surveyor, Mark’s experience covered principally property development and finance, landlord and tenant negotiations, property investment, management and valuation. When in practice as a chartered surveyor, he held appointments as an expert valuer in a number of professional negligence cases and also acted as a Receiver under the Law of Property Act.

Mark Jackson-Stops has considerable business experience. He has been a non-executive director of a number of companies involved in nursing homes, property development and investment and public houses.