James South

Director of Training

E-mail: jsouth@cedr.com

Direct dial: +44 (0) 20 7536 6030

James South - Director of Training

James South is a CEDR Director and is responsible for CEDR's training and educational capabilities including the development of leading-edge courses for the legal profession, businesses and public sector and well as collaboration with universities and professional and international ADR bodies.

A New Zealand trained barrister and solicitor, James has been involved in ADR for the past nine years. Firstly as a government mediator for the New Zealand Ministries of Justice and Housing and the past four with CEDR. He gained a Masters in Laws (distinction) in Dispute Prevention and Resolution in 1999 and became a CEDR accredited mediator in 2000. He is also a member of CEDR's training faculty. Over 50% of James work for CEDR now involves an international element and as such he is one of the world's most internationally experienced dispute resolution professionals. He regularly acts as trainer and consultant expert in jurisdictions around the world and in 2008 alone he has worked in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Botswana, Croatia, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Morocco, Pakistan, Spain, South Africa and Ukraine.

With a strong background in training, James South has developed, and currently lectures in, International Commercial Mediation, part of the Masters programme at the University of Westminster and has also taught and advised on ADR programmes at Southbank University, Birbank College and University of West England. In addition, he has delivered training to members of the Judiciary and legal profession both in the UK and internationally and has recently led programmes in Central and Eastern Europe and in Africa.

James' mediation experience includes racial discrimination disputes, tenant and landlord disputes and contractual disputes. James has experience in the design and project management of complicated and multi-party disputes through facilitation, mediation and other dispute resolution processes. His particular experience is in the resolution of disputes between individuals and organisations. As mediator he has practiced in New Zealand and the UK and has mediated cases involving Spanish, Austrian, Turkish and French Parties. He is trained in Cross--cultural mediation skills and speaks fluent Spanish.

He also has substantial facilitation experience including: the design and management of an eight-month facilitation project culminating in a three-day mediation, involving hundreds of claimants and a number of major public sector bodies; and the management of a multi-party facilitation concerning the rebuilding of working relations between statutory office holders.

James is one of the most internationally experienced trainers in Mediator Skills, Mediation Advocacy, Negotiation and Conflict Management as well as many other bespoke training interventions, as part of international ADR projects. In recent years, James has provided consultancy advice to IFC/World Bank, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Commercial Court of Zagreb, Croatia, Commonwealth Secretariat and the High Court of Sindh, Pakistan.

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