Andrew Parsons

Andrew is an experienced mediator, arbitrator and barrister. Prior to practising at the Bar he worked as a money and corporate finance broker in the City of London. He has a purely civil practice. He has for many years been committed to the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution processes such as mediation as a more sensible and civilised way to resolve disputes. He sits on the ADR Committee of the Bar Council and on the Committee of the Southern Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is the current Chairman of Solent Mediation Group. His work essentially concerns Business, Commerce, Family Finance, Personal Injury, Professional Negligence and Property.

In real life, cases do not fit into neat categories. Nor do the means of resolving them. A key advantage to instructing Andrew is that he is versatile, having experience and expertise in overlapping categories of work, not only in mediation but also in litigation and arbitration.

Although based in Portsmouth on the South Coast, Andrew travels widely to undertake his work. For example, he has conducted mediation meetings, conferences and appeared at court hearings in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Exeter, Leeds, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Oxford, Preston and Stoke-on-Trent. The fact that a case involves parties, Solicitors and/or other representatives who are nowhere near Portsmouth or the South Coast is therefore not a problem.