Phil Hesketh

Spotlight on: Meera Lachani

March 23, 2023 By phil-hesketh Spotlight on

Meera Lachani joined Trust Mediation in 2020 and is the youngest qualified Trust Mediation mediator authorised and approved to sit on the selective NHS Resolution Panel. Those that instruct her cite ‘high emotional intelligence’ and an ability to quickly build...

Mediation Achiever of the Year 2018

February 27, 2019 By phil-hesketh News and Views

Congratulations to my colleague Paul Balen who received the award for Mediation Achiever of the Year at the Personal Injury Awards in Manchester. Paul has been at the forefront of the NHS Resolution clinical negligence mediation scheme and has a phenomenal...

8 out of 10 claims settle in first year of Mediation Scheme

February 27, 2019 By phil-hesketh News and Views

December saw the completion of the first year of our work as specialist independent mediators under the NHS Resolution Mediation Scheme for personal injury and clinical negligence claims. In the year we had almost 50 matters go through the scheme – 18...

Sir Henry Brooke

February 27, 2019 By phil-hesketh News and Views

On behalf of all mediators at Trust Mediation, past and present, I would like to offer a few words of tribute to Sir Henry Brooke who, so sadly, passed away on 30 January. He was a great lawyer, an inspirational mediator, a great communicator and a wonderful man. Sir...

The new justice economy

February 27, 2019 By phil-hesketh Uncategorized

The following article by our panel mediator Tim Wallis first appeared in the Solicitors Journal September 2017 and is published here with kind permission. Alternative dispute resolution, what used to be ‘the next thing’, has now become mainstream. However,...