Elizabeth Jones KC

Described by clients as calm, sympathetic, commercial, inventive and a great mediator for difficult mediations, Elizabeth Jones KC brings to her mediation practice more than 40 years of litigation experience, more than 25 years of mediation experience both as mediator and as advisor, and 15 years experience of sitting as a deputy Judge in the Chancery Division. That breadth of experience means that she is often able to bring ideas for structures and potential solutions to a dispute. Many of her mediations are multi-party and they often involve parties from different jurisdictions. She has also done a number of mediations where the parties have an ongoing commercial relationship and need to find a way past the dispute and work out how to work together.

Liz is happy to mediate in any sphere, and is equally comfortable mediating commercial disputes, property and intellectual property disputes, or trust and estate disputes. She has also mediated several regulatory disputes. She is a particularly experienced negotiator who has written on risk analysis and negotiation biases, and she actively assists the parties to negotiate as effectively as possible. Her aim as a mediator is to help all the parties make the best decision they can as to how to and whether to settle their dispute, and she brings all her expertise and experience to that task. She has long experience of the potential barriers to settlement – for example lack of information, lack of relevant advice, emotional attachment to the litigation, over-confident advice or strained personal relationships – and has strategies for dealing with them. Liz also knows well that litigation and mediation can be highly stressful and emotionally charged, and she brings empathy and emotional intelligence and a deep understanding of the psychology of disputes to the mediation process.

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