Margaret Bickford-Smith QC

ADR

Her experience as a mediator reflects her advocacy and advisory experience, and includes:

• Commercial disputes:
  – Claims for monies due
  – Offshore trust setup
  – Property and licensing
• Personal injury: industrial, office, and general accident claims
• Actions against the police:
  – False imprisonment, malicious prosecution, exemplary and aggravated damages,
  quantum and recoverability of losses sustained
  – Allegations of interference with Article 8 right to private life, alleged breach of common
  law right to fairness, allegations of police malpractice in dealing with prosecutions,
  Enhanced Criminal Record Certificates
  – Associated judicial review issues.
• Clinical negligence: gynaecological and general treatment, diagnostic failure
• Construction contracts and subcontracts, including multi-partite disputes
  – Flooring subcontract of a large housing development project, main contractor a major
  construction company.
• Landlord & Tenant Commercial: dilapidations, tenancy breach
• Landlord & Tenant Residential: dilapidations, covenants
• Real Property
  – Boundary and neighbour disputes
  – Party walls, Tree roots, Subsidence
• Chancery:
  – Inheritance, wills, trusts

Margaret was from 2009 to 2016 a Mediator/ Judge at the Paris ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition. In 2013 she was lead Judge at the Final of the Competition.

Selected Cases

Articles

• Margaret Bickford Smith QC has contributed to the May 2016 edition of The Resolver
• Margaret Bickford-Smith QC’s inaugural CIArb Oxford Lecture published

News

• Margaret Bickford-Smith QC to deliver inaugural CIArb Oxford Lecture
• AB (a child) v Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust

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Qualifications

• MA (Oxon)
• Recorder (Civil and Criminal cases)
• Queens Counsel 2003

Memberships

• Bencher of the Inner Temple
• CIArb Mediation Panel
• Vice-Chair, Inns Conduct Committee 2009