Ronald Bradbeer became an accredited mediator in 1993. He set up his own mediation training programme for his firm in 1994, of which he is now the national chairman and continues to train fee-earners in ADR processes.

He is a very experienced and busy mediator in a wide variety of matters reflecting the breadth of his professional career. Aside from his extensive mediation experience in England and Scotland, Ronald has specialised in litigation for over 30 years. He work has taken him to Canada and Chile on several occasions and he has appeared in most of the courts in this country. Because of the nature of his firm's practice he has also had a long relationship with the private client sector and as a result is a trustee for a large number of high value trusts, in one case being a trustee for the second generation.

He has been Legal Advisor to British Shipbuilders since 1989 following the closure of their in-house legal department. He has been a managing partner and subsequently senior partner of a leading international law firm until May 2000.

Ronald has been a 'name' in the clinical negligence field for over 25 years. He has taken a keen interest in risk management for many years and has lectured extensively on the subject to the health service and the general business community.

He was a non-executive member of the Northumberland Health Authority, vice chairman of its ethics committee and chairman of its mental health act panel.

He has represented the largest care home in the north of England.

Ronald places great emphasis on the need to build good working relationships with the parties and their advisors in the days leading up to the mediation and prepares thoroughly. He is respected for the ease with which people can talk to him and looks whenever possible to establish the capabilities of a longer term relationship between the disputing parties.

• £1m per annum plus turnover dispute concerning IT equipment support - settlement achieved with a new contract negotiated through the mediation and subsequently repeated in a new Pan European contract.
• £1m plus dispute concerning a disputed will - resolved in one day.
• Construction dispute concerning a high value development.
• Housing dispute involving a housing association and disaffected tenants involving a two-stage process of identifying the resolution of the alleged defects and subsequently the issue concerning distress and loss of amenity claims.
• Professional indemnity claims involving solicitors' negligence, personal injury claims and other issues.
• Three-party dispute concerning a professional practice involving allegations of fraud and misconduct.
• Dispute concerning obligations between a garage licensee and a major petrol company.
• Dispute concerning clinical misdiagnosis.
• Employment issues involving discrimination and sexual harassment.

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