Legal and Mediation Practice Training Programme for Autumn 2019

This Autumn 2019 Nigel is honoured to be working with the internationally highly regarded and influential mediator Henry Brown, delivering training on the mediation and arbitration specialist processes.

Henry and Nigel will be delivering training to fellow professionals from legal, mediation, arbitration and dispute resolution backgrounds, with the aim to promote high quality, reflective practice, tailored to client need.

Both are passionate and stimulating trainers, with decades of experience, sharing their years of knowledge and practice reflections. The training is aimed at other professionals working in the field of dispute resolution, family law, mediation or arbitration or associated professionals (family consultants).

Henry practised as an attorney in Cape Town (1962 - 1971) with a mixed practice covering commercial work, family issues and civil/human rights. He emigrated to England in 1971 and requalified as an English solicitor (1975), practising in his own firm and subsequently as a partner in a City law firm, retiring in 2005 and focusing on mediation, training and writing.

Henry worked as a civil-commercial and a family mediator from 1985 for some 30 years. He ran mediation training in England, Hong Kong, South Africa, Denmark and Iceland. He co-founded and is a Vice-President of the Family Mediators Association and set up mediation for the family lawyers’ organisation, Resolution and was its first Director of Mediation. He was on the original training faculty of CEDR (the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution). Working with different mediation models, he developed a hybrid model of family mediation, which he used and taught. He has developed and run courses on various other topics including mediating with high conflict personalities.

He was author of the Law Society’s Report on civil and commercial Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) (1991) and co-author with Arthur Marriott QC of ADR Principles and Practice, which has sold in over 60 countries (1993; 4th edition 2018 as Consultant Editor). He co-wrote a lawyers’ training book/DVD in 2006 on Managing Difficult Divorce Relationships; and also co-wrote Psychology, Emotion and Intuition in Work Relationships: The Head, Heart & Gut Professional published in 2018. Henry is a PIM Senior Mediator Emeritus.

Until his retirement, he was a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb); a Member of the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution’s International Panel of Distinguished Neutrals (New York); an Advanced Practitioner member of the US Association for Conflict Resolution; and a Practitioner Member of the Law Society’s commercial mediation panel. He has honorary life membership of the Civil Mediation Council (CMC).

Henry received the Danish Mediation Institute’s inaugural award for developing mediation in Denmark; the UK Civil Mediation Council’s 2013 Lord Slynn Prize for developing mediation in the UK; and the International Academy of Mediators’ 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award.