Mediation

Email: allisbeasley@brachers.co.uk

Professional Qualifications: Solicitor Advocate, Accredited Mediator

Allis Beasley is a Partner at Brachers LLP, specialising in real estate disputes. She qualified at Hogan Lovells, before heading up the real estate disputes team at Stevens & Bolton, and then joining Brachers in 2011. Allis is highly recommended as a Ranked Lawyer for real estate litigation in both Chambers as well as Legal 500. She is a Solicitor Advocate and also a part-time Judge in the Property Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal, where she determines cases relating to land registration, adverse possession, easements, boundary disputes, rectification and beneficial interest claims. 

Allis is a qualified mediator, acting as a judicial mediator for the First-tier Tribunal and as a mediator in property disputes. She is a trustee of East Malling Trust, which supports scientific research in the horticulture industry. She has spoken at the RICS South East Rural Forums and regularly writes articles for the publication the South East Farmer.

Email: allisbeasley@brachers.co.uk

Email:  CBeer@savills.com 

Professional Qualifications: MRICS, MCIArb, TEP, Accredited Mediator

Clive, a Chartered Surveyor, member of the Institute of Arbitrators/Accredited Mediator, Trust and Estate Practitioner (STEP) and experienced expert witness, became a Director of Savills in 2003 and in 2007 became Chairman of Savills Rural Professional Practice for the United Kingdom. In 2010 he launched the successful Savills International Mediation service and has significant experience in resolving high net worth contentious matters. 

Clive is a creative mind that is careful with risk: a lateral thinker not afraid of original solutions or unusual personalities. This background assists him in being an effective and high profile advisor to family offices and private clients throughout the UK and internationally. 

Clive has proven track record of building and working with a close professional team to consider and advise clients on the effective management of their investment assets, be those property based or not. International trusts and tax is an imperative part of well rounded advice and Clive ensures that clients use the best portfolio of advisors, resulting in successful outcomes and smooth running of family affairs.  

Email:  CBeer@savills.com  

Email: nerys@maesltd.co.uk
Professional Qualifications: Solicitor, FALA, Accredited Mediator

Founder of a specialist agricultural law firm in 2011, Nerys is a recognised lawyer in her specialist fields of agricultural, environmental and planning law and has been a fellow of the agricultural law association since 2009. Her doctorate was in the implementation and enforcement of agricultural law and policy at international and regional levels of governance. she is knowledgeable about the legal and administrative devolved structure of the UK and is a fluent welsh speaker.

Nerys is an experienced and successful mediator, having qualified as an ADR accredited mediator in 2011. She has a reputation for her pragmatic and common sense approach to resolving disputes. Nerys has acted as mediator in many mediations across England and Wales on a variety of matters including equine disputes, estate disputes, property disputes, proprietary estoppel and landlord and tenant matters. She is also a CEDR exchange member.

A renowned expert in rural disputes, Nerys has worked with a vast number of rural professionals and businesses to manage change, succession, and collaboration.

Nerys was raised on a dairy farm and now runs a beef and sheep enterprise with her husband.

Email: nerys@maesltd.co.uk

Email: cmcnall@18sjs.com 

Professional Qualifications: Barrister, FALA, Accredited Mediatior 

Christopher McNall is a barrister specialising in agricultural law (especially tenancies under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, proprietary estoppel and Inheritance Act claims, and disputes involving crop failures and animal deaths) and is a CEDR accredited mediator. He edited the latest edition of the Agricultural Land section of Halsbury's Laws of England, and is the author of 'A Practical Guide to Agricultural Tenancies' and Practical Law's Rural Affairs 'View from the Bar' column.  

He has wide experience of advising and representing parties in disputes before Courts and Tribunals and in arbitrations. He also sits as a fee-paid judge of the County Court and the First-tier Tribunal and is Principal Judge of the Agricultural Land Tribunal for Wales/Tribiwnlys Tir Amaethyddol Cymru, where he has dealt with a wide range of tenancy and drainage disputes. He has also acted as an independent 'Third Party' appointed by the parties to determine disputes. 

Email: cmcnall@18sjs.com

Email:  hmercer@essexcourt.net 

Professional Qualifications: Barrister, Accredited Mediator

Hugh has over 25 years of experience litigating issues arising in relation to agriculture, the environment and food, such as the notion of “active farmer” for Basic Payments, the definition of “meat”, follow on competition law damages in relation to cartels, arbitrating complex farming partnership disputes, mediating Government/farming disputes and Brexit-related litigation. Has particular experience in resolving disputes with public bodies.

He practises as a barrister (E&W, NI) from Essex Court Chambers in London, Bar Library in Belfast, as an Avocat from Alphalex Avocats Brussels and, as an arbitrator and mediator, from Arbitrators at 24 Lincoln’s Inn Fields.  Called to the Bar in 1985; took silk in 2008; Bencher of Middle Temple; Deputy High Court Judge sitting in the Queen’s Bench Division and Administrative Court since 2018. Hugh is also a qualified mediator, accredited by ADR Group.

Chair of the Bar’s International Committee, Member of the Agricultural Law Association, co-Author, European Civil Practice, an article by article commentary on the Brussels Regulation on Jurisdiction and Judgments.

Email: hmercer@essexcourt.net 

Email:  timruss@roythornes.co.uk 

Professional Qualifications: Solicitor, FCIArb, Accredited Mediator

Tim is a senior dispute resolution lawyer specialising in agricultural law, food law, private client and property disputes.

He advises on agricultural tenancies, landlord and tenant disputes, property disputes, partnership disputes, professional negligence claims, Direct Payments, quota disputes and contractual claims.

Tim is a qualified mediator accredited by both the ADR Group and CEDR, is on the Court of Appeal mediation panel and is accredited as a practitioner member by the Law Society Civil and Commercial mediation panel. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and sits as an arbitrator as well as advising arbitrators and on occasions sitting with them as legal advisor.

He is also a member of the Agricultural Law Association, Worshipful Company of Farmers, Farmers Club, Property Litigation Association, ACTAPS, National Farmers Union, the Country Land & Business Association, Tenant Farmers Association (for which he is on the East Midlands panel) and Countryside Alliance.

Email:  timruss@roythornes.co.uk