CEDR Member
Benefits:
  • Up to 20% off training courses
  • Free annual seminar and mediation theatre
  • Free events and priority booking

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.

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.


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