ARBDB - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director General, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Jane has helped with a number of very tricky situations where mediation was vital in order to avoid sustained conflict. Her advice and guidance was excellent and she delivered her support in a professional yet compassionate way that helped defuse tension in both sides. Without her help I am certain that the disputes could have easily escalated. With her mediation a solution was found each time that satisfied all parties and which ensured that the problems were resolved much more quickly than might have otherwise been possible.
Job Titles:
- Partner, Borne, Martell Coulston, Solicitors LLP
I am a dispute settlement solicitor of 33 years call and a part time mediator for the last 15 years. For the last 10 years or so I have known Jane as a bright thought leader for mediation, an author on that subject and a leading mediator. She is an immensely likeable, independent and caring person. She is easy to work with and expresses herself very carefully. My clients really liked her. In 2015 she acted as mediator in a case of mine; she is a first rate mediator. Through reason and polite and firm challenges she creates a calm environment of goodwill with reason, a smile and good humour. It helps everyone reflect on positive outcomes.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Committee for Advocates
Henri Mizzi is an advocate, admitted to practise law before the Superior Courts of Malta.
Before setting up a practice as an Independent Arbitrator and Mediator and joining ArbDB Chambers, Henri was senior partner at Camilleri Preziosi, one of Malta's premier commercial law firms. Apart from his advisory and transactional responsibilities, he was responsible for the firm's dispute resolution practice, and he handled the firm's most important cases. His work spanned several economic sectors including banking and financial services, construction, communications, shipping, insurance, and energy. The branches of the law he covered were varied and included banking law, company law, communications law, construction law, insurance law, intellectual property law and shipping law. During the last ten years or so of his practice, Henri dealt increasingly with administrative law issues, given their growing importance in the commercial world.
Henri is a member of the Committee for Advocates and Legal Procurators, the regulatory body for the legal professions in Malta. He graduated from the University of Malta and from the University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall) and is a CEDR Accredited Mediator.
Job Titles:
- Solicitor
- Chairman of the Board of Management of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Jane has been invited to speak at the United Nations, the White House, the European Commission and the International Energy Agency and has fulfilled a number of other international speaking engagements. She has also addressed the U.S. Department of Commerce and Federal Trade Commission on the role of Alternative Dispute Resolution in the border-less on-line market place.
Jane is Chair of the Board of Management of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and is a former director and board member of the Civil Mediation Council of England and Wales (CMC). She is a past president of the Professional Speaking Association of the UK and Ireland (PSA UKI). She is also a member of the Advisory Committee to QUADRA in Italy.
Job Titles:
- Honorary Director of the International Mediation Institute
Mark Appel has nearly 40 years of global arbitration and mediation experience, having served in both executive and senior executive positions at the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), leaving ICDR/AAA as Senior Vice President, EMEA in December of 2015.
An experienced mediator, Mr. Appel is an Honorary Director of the International Mediation Institute (IMI). Since 2016, Mr. Appel has served as Chair of the IMI Investor-State Mediation Task Force, working with state and investor representatives, experts, academics, the Energy Charter Secretariat, ICSID and UNCITRAL on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) reform and mediation.
Mr. Appel has consulted with individual companies and whole industries on dispute resolution design. Mr. Appel also participated in a series of ground-breaking corporate dispute resolution and conflict management benchmarking surveys of leading French corporations.
Job Titles:
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Member of the RICS
Paul is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the President's Panel of Arbitrators at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and CIArb Disputes Service panel - property. He is also a member of the President's Panel of Mediators at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is one of the few people dual qualified as a commercial Mediator and an Arbitrator. Paul is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Dubai Mediation Centre.
Paul is also a member of the RICS President's Panel of Arbitrators in Commercial Rent Reviews. He is also a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the London Court of International Arbitration and the panel of Arbitrators and Mediators of the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration.
Peter is an arbitration panel member of arbitral institutions in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and United Kingdom. He also acts as a mediator.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Richard is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and accepts retainers as an international arbitrator and mediator. As well as being a member of ArbDB Chambers, he is on the panels of WIPO in Geneva and JAMS in London, New York and San Francisco.
Job Titles:
- Barrister, Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Adjudicator
Robert Sliwinski is a Barrister, Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Adjudicator and Mediator, Quantity Surveyor and Dispute Board Member.
Robert is also qualified and trained as a dispute board member and has a thorough knowledge of the FIDIC and ICC provisions. He is a professional member of the Dispute Board Federation. Robert has been appointed by FIDIC and is able to undertake dispute board appointments throughout the world in the areas of construction, engineering, wastewater, and process engineering.
Robert's work as a neutral dispute resolver has taken him across the world including the Middle East (Dubai & Kuwait), the USA and Caribbean, Europe, and Cyprus. He also has knowledge and experience of the contracting and dispute processes within the United Arab Emirates, Africa, and the Far East (Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia).
Robert provides training, seminars and undertakes assessments on international and
Job Titles:
- MCIArb, CEDR Accredited Mediator
Sheila Bates, MCIArb, CEDR accredited mediator (2007) is an international dispute resolution professional, facilitator and trainer. She has wide-ranging international experience gained in consulting, multi-nationals, financial institutions and public sector organisations over more than 25 years. She is a member of the CEDR mediation panel.
As a mediator, Sheila is particularly in interested in cross cultural and workplace and employment disputes. She has an in-depth knowledge of emerging markets. Sheila led the implementation of mediation in an international financial institution as part of its internal justice system.
She has led and facilitated several major change management initiatives and trains regularly on conflict management, collaboration and mediation awareness in the UK and internationally. Sheila is also engaged in collaborative dialogue in the food industry to eliminate modern slavery in the supply chain.
A fluent French speaker, she trains and mediates in the language. In her spare time Sheila enjoys upholstery, mountain walking and spending time in south west France.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director, Acuity Coaching Ltd
A safe pair of hands and firm in her approach, Jane gets to the heart of a dispute. From that position she is adept at promoting solutions to and resolution of issues that may not be apparent at first. Easy to talk to and an excellent listener Jane's is the first name that comes up in discussions about effective and sympathetic mediators. She is in the Premier League.
Stephen Bate is a British citizen, Chartered Arbitrator, barrister and accredited mediator, with a UK domestic and international commercial arbitration practice carried on through ArbDB Chambers, arbitration chambers in London. His practice background is as a barrister at the English Bar, where he gained over 25 years' experience in a range of civil and commercial matters, specialising in entertainment and media cases, at 5RB barristers' chambers. His advocacy practice was mainly in the courts of the Chancery Division and his work was predominantly contract-based.
Stephen became a Chartered Arbitrator in 2007. He is a member of the Presidential Panel of arbitrators at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is listed with the Dubai International Arbitration Centre as a qualified arbitrator. He is also a member of the panel of arbitrators maintained by Sport Resolutions and an arbitrator on the panel of the London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation. He is also an expert appointed by Nominet to decide .co.uk and .uk domain name ownership disputes.
Stephen was accredited as a mediator in the UK by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) in 2002 and has since mediated over 200 cases with values up to £250M in a very wide range of commercial disputes. His mediation practice is carried out through CEDR: www.cedr.com.
Tony Marks has more than thirty years' experience of litigation and arbitration, as a solicitor in private practice. He was a partner in CMS Cameron McKenna from 1983-2008, conducting a wide range of commercial litigation and arbitration, specialising in particular in the financial and energy sectors. Since retiring from full time legal practice in 2008, he has sat as arbitrator in commercial arbitrations and acted as mediator in a wide range of disputes.