Mediation
Accredited as a mediator since 2004, she has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Mediation panel since 2007. She is a member of ADR Group, and a mediator currently registered with the Civil Mediation Council.
Margaret was Mediator/ Judge at the ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition, Paris 2009-2015. In 2013 she was lead Judge at the Final of the Competition.
Her experience as a mediator includes:
- Construction contracts and subcontracts, including multi-partite disputes
- Flooring subcontract of a large housing development project, main contractor a major construction company.
- Commercial Landlord & Tenant: dilapidations, tenancy breach
- Residential Landlord & Tenant
- Real Property
- Boundary and neighbour disputes
- Party walls
- Tree roots
- Subsidence
- Business disputes: claims for monies due; offshore trust setup
- Business disputes: property and licensing
- Personal injury: industrial, office, and general accident claims
- Clinical negligence: gynaecological and general treatment, diagnostic failure
- Actions against the police
Selected Cases
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- Margaret Bickford Smith KC has contributed to the May 2016 edition of The Resolver
- Margaret Bickford-Smith KC’s inaugural CIArb Oxford Lecture published
News
- Margaret Bickford-Smith KC to deliver inaugural CIArb Oxford Lecture
- AB (a child) v Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust
Qualifications
- MA (Oxon)
- Called to the Bar 1973
- Recorder (Civil and Criminal cases) 1997-2020
- Appointed Queens Counsel 2003
- MCIArb 2006
- Accredited Mediator 2004
Memberships
- Member CIArb Commercial Mediation Panel 2007
- Chair, CIArb London Branch 2012-2015
- Chair, Inns of Court Conduct Committee 2012-14
- Governing Bencher of the Inner Temple 1993-
Recommendations
“Highly experienced in clinical negligence as well as injury and disease work.”
Legal 500 2014
“Committed…utterly dependable…has a fantastic manner with clients.”
Legal 500 2010
