Amanda Bucklow - Commercial Mediator

An experienced and effective mediator with mediation experience in a wide range of commercial matters, employment, (private and public sector) and regulated industries.

Amanda's style is commercially effective and creative. She is successful because she is both pragmatic and people-focused in discovering the needs that shape agreements. She has a real gift for engaging even the most reluctant people in productive dialogue and a command of skills and approaches to keep people talking.

She is well known for her investment in preparing parties for mediation and for her success in arenas where other mediators ‘fear to tread’. She has a reputation for creating an effective balance between the legal and commercial facts and the human issues and on several occasions, the choice of law firms for their own disputes.

Amanda is also a highly respected trainer (foundation and advanced mediator skills) and author of the first professional research project into the competencies of UK mediators.

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Accreditations:

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)
Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR)

Currently studying for Master in Laws (LLM).

Experience in ...

employment
regulated industries (monopolies, safety, professions)
IT (including large projects)
transport (rail, aviation and shipping)
manufacturing (including automotive)
police, NHS, Fire Service
unions
construction (projects, framework agreements)
publishing
commodity trading and foreign currency hedging, banking
retail and leisure

developing and training mediation skills...

Unique research into mediator development and competency management (see research)
Peer review for senior mediators
Trainer and coach (CIArb),
Lead faculty for MATA (Mediation and Training Alternatives)
Team profiling to build teams with capacity to deal with disputes
Course developer (see training)
In-house dispute resolution systems and sector specific mediation skills courses.

Recommended in:

Chambers 2008

An “important personality in the mediation world, ... she evinces a fantastic ability to empathise and build a rapport with people.”

Legal 500 2007/2008

“… merits recognition in a number of areas, including industrial disputes in the rail sector, which she handles with great finesse.”

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Published articles: selection of recently published articles.

Peer Review: CPD 19 hours. Based on highly respected research into mediator competence.

Mediation in business: Wherever negotiation takes place which involves people and their needs and interests - mediation can add value.

case study - IT project.

case study - publishing/printing.

Participate in research project: If you are an experienced mediator or a regular user of mediation and would be happy to be interviewed, please contact me to participate in confidence.

When it comes down to a simple assessment of why disputes happen there are three key features:

someone’s behaviour was unacceptable to someone else;
someone broke their word either uninentionally or because it no longer suited them to keep it;
someone is unwilling or unable to take their share of responsibility or continue with their undertakings.