Abigail Day

Abigail has been a full-time mediator and arbitrator since 2017. When in legal practice, she was a corporate lawyer specialising in tax. This involved having a deep understanding of highly technical rules and regulations, and at the same time understanding many different industries and business contexts. She had to find ways through uncertainty and complexity so as to address the commercial needs of her clients. This background has given Abigail a rare combination of the ability to handle the most complex legal issues and factual scenarios and an appreciation of commercial realities in all the areas normally dealt with by a commercial law firm, from real estate and banking, to company and commercial, to employment. Her practice therefore covers a broad range of civil and commercial disputes. She approaches mediation with a problem-solving, negotiator’s perspective. Although her corporate legal practice was non-contentious, she has a good understanding of the litigation process and the importance of evidence from acting as an adjudicator and arbitrator (she is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is regularly appointed as arbitrator by CEDR, the Law Society and clients on an ad hoc basis). She is also vice-chair of a sport disciplinary tribunal.