Stuart Chapman

Biography

Stuart has conducted more than 500 mediations since he began mediating in 2008. He has been consistently recommended by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 as a leader in the field of mediation. He is also listed in the international directory, Who’s Who Legal: Mediation. Stuart enjoys mediating across the UK and internationally and has a very broad experience of parties and dispute-types. These include property, chancery and commercial disputes as well as professional negligence cases ranging from small to multimillion-pound claims. He has mediated disputes involving parties from more than 20 jurisdictions.
Stuart’s background is in commercial dispute resolution and litigation. He qualified as a solicitor with Linklaters in 1991. He was a partner and Head of Litigation in Leeds at Pinsent Masons from 1998 until 2008, when he left practice to become a full-time independent mediator. As a litigation lawyer Stuart represented a diverse range of clients, national and international, in the UK courts, up to and including the Supreme Court and the Privy Council, in the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Council, and in domestic and international arbitrations as well as in mediations and direct negotiations.
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