Trusts: Mediators (Chambers High Net Worth 2023) 

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Paul has been consistently recommended in Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500 since 2008.  He is also listed in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame, Dispute Resolution: Mediators Category.

"Paul is really excellent, he is the mediator of choice for most of my disputes. He has excellent soft skills and is good at dealing with lay clients." Chambers & Partners 2025

"Paul is a very strong mediator - charismatic, effective and certainly on our team sheet of mediators." Chambers & Partners 2025

"Paul Johnson is someone who is very personable." Chambers High Net Worth, 2024

"Paul is fantastic and great at managing expectations. He is also extremely bright and personable. I would use him again in a heartbeat." Chambers High Net Worth 2023

"He would be my go-to. He somehow makes the process not as painful as it might be. It is charisma and the way he communicates, looking at the dispute in a sympathetic way." Chambers High Net Worth 2023

"Paul Johnson brings a vast amount of experience to his broad mediation practice, which includes trusts matters." Chambers High Net Worth 2023

“Paul Johnson is thorough, well prepared and personable.” Chambers & Partners UK Bar 2023

 "He is a very strong mediator who does not let parties get away with taking unreasonable stances or refusing to engage.” Chambers & Partners 2022

“Bright, reliable, trustworthy and fun to work with.” The Legal 500 2022

“Always on top of the papers and very affable.” “He is very good at de-escalating disputes.” Chambers & Partners 2021

“Excellent at gaining the trust of all parties and very pragmatic and empathetic, which helps see where the settlement is likely to lie and encourage all parties towards it.” The Legal 500 2021

“A mediator who ‘doesn’t take any nonsense from the parties. He gets them really focused on what they need to do, which makes him particularly good at handling disputes involving numerous parties.’” ... “He is capable of handling the full range of commercial disputes and has added experience of mediating clinical negligence and probate cases.” Chambers & Partners 2020

“Approachable, commercial, pragmatic and persistent - if anyone can get a settlement, Paul can.” The Legal 500 2020

Below are some extracts from comments received from parties and their lawyers:

“Paul’s affable manner belies his steely determination and intelligence”

“Quick to engage with the parties and quick to identify and communicate the issues that mattered.  Equally quick and adept at facilitating constructive negotiations”

“Brilliant”

“A wonderful understated manner”

“He was sensational.  The most accomplished mediator I’ve ever some across”

“He is unfailingly charming and persuasive, even in challenging and seemingly intractable disputes”

“His style was very positive and encouraged open constructive dialogue.  He was excellent”

“Very courteous, but tough when needed to be”

“The facilitative approach worked wonderfully … settlement would have been far less likely within the time span we had, if you had not been the mediator”

“I liked the way he got to know everybody and got everyone talking without realising they were actually talking”

“(He) has a wealth of experience and knowledge and as a practitioner in this field he excelled”