Margaret Bickford-Smith KC

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

Articles

• 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

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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-