Civil Mediation Council : Accredited Mediation Providers

The Civil Mediation Council operates a pilot scheme for the accreditation of mediation providers. This is a voluntary scheme although the DCA and the National Mediation Helpline require accreditation. It relates to the standards, quality, and characteristics of the provider and not to its individual mediators but sets basic standards of training, CPD, and administration. The CMC welcomes comments on the scheme.

Information provided to the CMC by each provider for the public domain is listed on the Provider Information Pages accessed by the buttons on the left of this page. Each page contains details of eight providers: look for the reference number of the provider you are interested in below and then check the relevant page.

The following mediation providers have been formally accredited under its pilot scheme which began in mid-December 2005 (providers are listed in order of date of accreditation):

1 Clerksroom (www.clerksroom.com)
2 Solent Mediation (www.solentmediation.com)
3 Specialist Mediators LLP (www.specialistmediators.org )
4 UK Mediation (www.UKmediation.net)
5 LADR (LambBuilding ADR)(www.ladr.co.uk)
6 Resolve & InterMediation (part of the InterResolve Group)(www.inter-resolve.com)
7 ADR Group (www.adrgroup.co.uk)
8 Talk Mediation (www.talkmediation.co.uk)
9 Littleton Dispute Resolution Services (www.littletonchambers.com)
10 ADR Chambers (www.adrchambers.co.uk)
11 Academy of Experts (www.academy-experts.org)
12 In Place of Strife (www.mediate.co.uk)
13 Association of Northern Mediators (www.northernmediators.co.uk)
14 Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (www.arbitrators.org)
15 IDRS Ltd (www.idrs.ltd.uk)
16 Association of Midlands Mediators (www.ammediators.co.uk)
17 CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) (www.cedr.co.uk)
18 Northern Dispute Resolution (www.ndr-northernmediations.co.uk)
19 Maritime Solicitors Mediation (website)
20 Global Mediation (www.globalmediation.co.uk)
21 Wandsworth Mediation Service (www.wandsworthmediation.co.uk)
22 Consensus Mediation (www.consensusmediation.co.uk)
23 Core Mediation (www.core-mediation.com)
24 Law Works Mediation (www.lawworks.org.uk)
25 Sports Dispute Resolution Panel (www.sportsdisputes.co.uk)
26 Association of Cambridge Mediators (www.cambridgemediators.co.uk)
27 Oxfordshire Mediation Group (www.oxfordmediation.org.uk/)
28 ResoLex (www.resolex.com)
29 MTV Mediators (Middlesex & Thames Valley Mediators)( www.MTVM.org)
30 Commercial Mediation West Wales (www.CMWW.co.uk)
31 Immediation (www.immediation.co.uk)
32 Quadrant Chambers (www.quadrantchambers.com)
33 Mediationsolve (website awaited)
34 Cornelius Parker Mediation (www.cpmediation.co.uk )
35 Mediation 1st(www.mediation-1st.co.uk}
36 Lyons Davidson Dispute Resolution(http://www.lddr.co.uk)
37 BL Resolve(www.bllaw.co.uk/blresolve)
38 Wessex Civil Mediation - http://www.wessexcivilmediation.org
39 Devon & Exeter Law Society (DELS) commercial panel( DELS website)
40 London SEN Mediation Services (www.londonsenmediation.org.uk)
41 The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)(www.icaew.com )
42 Luton Mediation ( Luton Mediation Website )
43Medical Disputes Solutions www.medicaldisputesolutions.co.uk

More applications from mediation providers have been received or are expected as of 14th February 2008 and are being assessed under the scheme. They will be listed here once they have been approved, a process that involves up to six weeks of work by the CMC (or longer if a visit has to be arranged) using the criteria it has adopted. Ultimately, it is expected that some 50 organisations will have passed through the process of which around 80% were accredited.

Further details of how to access mediation are available from the Ministry of Justice's funded website at www.nationalmediationhelpline.com

IMPORTANT NOTICE - The CMC Scheme is a pilot scheme and depends on the accuracy of the information provided to the CMC by applicants for its effectiveness. Whilst reasonable steps are taken to ensure that the information is likely to be correct the responsibility for accuracy lies with the provider to whom all questions should be addressed. The CMC can accept no liability for any loss or error caused by innaccurate information having been provided to it and makes no warranty as to the effectiveness or otherwise of individual mediators provided by an Accredited Provider.

Users should also note that the CMC does not accredit individual mediators and that membership of the CMC as an individual does not imply, infer, or confer any status or guarantee of quality upon such a person. Users should make their own checks of anyu mediator that they intend to instruct and are recommended to do so through the offices of an accredited mediation provider where possible.