Robin BramleyDirector & Consultant Mediator |
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“We would certainly consider using Mr Bramley again. We felt he understood the parties view points and delicacies of our client’s position in particular. It made a refreshing change having a mediator who was not a lawyer.” |
Chartered Surveyor Arbitrator “Just a note to confirm that everything was splendid, and it certainly sorted the matter out” Excellent – really pleased with his approach to the matter and the parties” |
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Mediation Background
My professional life has revolved around securing objectives for clients, by negotiation. I have extensive experience of Dispute Resolution, as an Arbitrator, and as an Independent Expert Adjudicator, and of Court procedures as an Expert Witness. This background has led me naturally to mediation, which provides a far better method of finding practical answers to difficult problems, without the risks, costs, delays and general damage of seeking imposed solutions. My mediation work has now increased to a level which has enabled me to set up an independent specialist practice in 2003, operating throughout England.
Mediation Experience
I have acted as mediator in a wide range of disputes. My appointments generally stem from one or more of the following factors:
- General relevant business experience
- Over 30 years as a property professional
- A lifetime’s knowledge of farming
Settlements have been reached in the very large majority of my cases and I have a very high success rate in cases where the parties are personally well known to each other and agreement is not expected by them or their advisors.
Qualifications
1974 - Diploma in Farm Business Management
1974 - ARICS
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Background
- Managing Partner of extensive agricultural and property business with a broad spread of farming enterprises including sheep, cattle, cereals, sugar beet and potatoes, forestry, conservation and diversification.
- Director of various agricultural co-operative companies 1980-90.
- Trustee and Trustee/Executor of a number of private property trusts and estates for various families since 1982.
- Winner of three awards for Farmland Conservation.
- Experience of day to day management of 5,000 acres of in hand arable land.
Hands on Experience
Hands on personal experience of practical farming including milking, lambing, pigs, slurry and FYM.
Qualifications
1972 - LL.B Hons - University of Exeter
1974 - ARICS - College of Estate Management, Reading
(RICS Practical Examination – Hugh Cooke Prize for highest overall marks)
1982 - FRICS Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
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Background and Experience
- 25 years experience as a Partner, Managing Partner and Senior Partner of a long established firm of Chartered Surveyors in General and Rural Practice based in Norwich and covering East Anglia.
- Trebled turnover and merged firm with Brown & Co.
- Subsequently partner and now active consultant to Brown & Co, Property and Business Consultants.
- Responsible for management of various diverse property portfolios, and transactions involving urban, rural and development property, minerals and leisure.
- Client list of private individuals, Trusts, property companies and local authorities.
- Managing Director of a waste disposal company 1985-95.
- Valuations and appraisals for Banks and Lending Institutions
- Responsible for the maintenance, repair and conversion of Listed Buildings including Grade I and Grade II* Historic houses.
“We would certainly consider using Mr Bramley again. We felt he understood the parties view points and delicacies of our client’s position in particular. It made a refreshing change having a mediator who was not a lawyer.”
“Just a note to confirm that everything was splendid, and it certainly sorted the matter out”
“Excellent – really pleased with his approach to the matter and the parties”
Some cases mediated...
Examples of key issues dealt with successfully in recent mediations include:
General Commercial Cases
Agricultural Cases
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Qualifications
1992 - Appointed Member of Lord Chancellor’s Panel of Arbitrators
Member of Arbrix
2000 - RICS certificate in Arbitration Practice
2001 - Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
2002 - Diploma in Arbitration
Arbitration
Actively involved in arbitrations under the Agricultural Holdings Acts covering Farm Rents, Landlord and Tenant matters, Dilapidations and Tenants Right as an Advocate, Expert Witness and Arbitrator upon appointment by the parties privately or by the President of the RICS, since 1980.
Various appointments under the Arbitration Act 1996 including determination of value of commercial / industrial estate development.
Ad hoc appointment by agreement of parties to arbitrate outstanding valuation points as part of a mediation settlement.
Independent Expert Adjudication
Various appointments by the President of the RICS and by other parties to adjudicate on Boundary and Building issues.
Negotiation
On behalf of private and local authority clients, I have negotiated transactions involving the sale and purchase of development land, houses, farms and estates, commercial property and mineral waste disposal sites throughout East Anglia.
I have been involved in the strategic planning of family businesses including the management of a generation change and in the numerous day to day negotiations involved in the management of property portfolios.
Expert Witness
Prior to 2002, I have acted as an Expert Witness concerning Valuation matters and Professional Negligence as well as in Planning Inquiries.
Education ...
Ampleforth, Exeter University
Norfolk College of Agriculture
Reading University
Employment ...
1972 Turnbull & Co Chartered Surveyors
1975 Francis Hornor & Son (established 1794)
1978 Francis Hornor & Son, Partner
1989 Francis Hornor & Son, Managing Partner
1991 - 1996 Francis Hornor & Son, Senior Partner
1996 - 2001 Francis Hornor Brown & Co, Partner
2001 - to date Brown & Co, Consultant
2002 Mediators in East Anglia, Director
2004 Consensus Mediation, Director
PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS
1983 - 2000 - Justice of the Peace
1993 - 1998 - Rota Group Chairman
1990 - 2000 - Vice Chairman, Family Panel
2001 - to date - Supplemental List
1989 - 1999 - Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Authority Member, on appointment by the Secretary of State. This is the National Park Authority for the Broads.
Former Chairman, The Broads Society.
1984 - 2001 - Norfolk Police Authority, Vice Chairman, Property Committee dealing with £60 million PFI project
Committee Member/Chairman of various social, sporting and conservation bodies.
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