Michel is Head of Littleton Chambers and has over 34 years' experience as a practising barrister in the field of general commercial, professional negligence and employment work. He is recognised in the Legal Directories as an expert in his field in Mediation, Commercial Litigation and Professional Negligence. He is an Accredited Mediator with CEDR and ADR Chambers, and is a Chartered Arbitrator.

Michel mediates a wide variety of disputes including: partnerships; banking; insurance and re-insurance; all areas of employment disputes including racial and sex discrimination claims and pension rights; solicitors and valuers' negligence claims; construction, engineering and commercial disputes with claims over £100m including referrals from the Commercial Court and the TCC. He has also mediated a variety of land disputes involving rights of way and disputed boundaries. Many of the mediations have been multi-party disputes and others have involved international companies and the laws of other countries.

He is Chairman of the Bar Council ADR Committee, and was a member of the working party which drafted the EU Code of Practice for Mediators.

Michel led a team to train Arbitrators for the Kingdom of Bhutan at the request of the Chief Justice and arbitrates disputes in the UK concerning commercial and franchise agreements. He is a recorder and sits as a deputy High Court Judge in Queen's Bench, Chancery and the TCC.

Michel is fluent in German and has a working knowledge of French.

Contact at:
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London EC4Y 1EU

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