Chris Makin

Chris Makin

FCA FCMI FAE QDR MCIArb West Yorkshire * Gray's Inn Square
Membership Status: Mediator

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General Information

As a chartered accountant with extensive commercial experience, Chris Makin’s early mediation work focused on finance-related areas such as shares, partnerships and contracts. Since then, his skills and reputation have brought him success mediating in other matters of probate, boundaries and rights of way, defamation, construction, and much more. His particular talent lies in analysing individuals in order to ‘speak their language’ and identify what really matters to them in order to move towards settlement.

WHY CHOOSE CHRIS? 

  • Versatile, experienced mediator – Chris has undertaken further training in advanced mediation techniques and time-limited mediations. He also lectures to legal and other professionals on mediation. Chris mediates disputes across a wide range of issues, focusing on the people rather than the industries – with excellent results.
  • Excellent commercial understanding – As a practitioner accountant Chris built four practices, including three from scratch. He built the largest sole practice in Leeds with 18 members of staff, and later became a partner in an international firm. His management experience and wide-ranging client list – from market traders to PLCs – have seen him work successfully with people at all levels of business and from diverse sectors.
  • Highly empathic communicator – Chris listens closely and talks to people from all walks of life on their terms, able to quickly identify what is important to them in order to move seemingly entrenched positions towards settlement. One case saw Chris settle in one day a legacy dispute that had raged for 23 years, while others brought resolution where warring parties had even refused to sit in the same room at the start of the mediation process. 
  • National coverage – Based in Yorkshire and in London (Gray’s Inn), Chris works across the UK, including within Scotland’s independent legal framework.

MEDIATION EXPERIENCE

Chris has mediated successfully across diverse commercial and civil disputes, including:

  • Partnership
  • Professional negligence
  • Business and share valuations
  • Director
  • Contract
  • Construction
  • Boundary, rights of way and encroachment
  • Civil fraud
  • Insolvency
  • Architect disputes
  • Housing disrepair
  • Defamation
  • Intellectual property
  • Expensive motor cars
  • Probate, Inheritance Act and TOLATA

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

“Chris Makin managed to move entrenched parties to address difficult issues and resolve a situation that looked impossible.”

"This was an extremely satisfying outcome to this long-running dispute."

"We picked a first-rate man for a very difficult case."

"Great mediator! All disputes should if possible be settled this way."

WHAT CHRIS SAYS

“I am a good listener and can empathise with all sorts of people; I have successfully worked with individuals from market traders to a prominent businessman knighted for services to industry. It’s all about finding out what life experiences and values they have.

“In mediation, I prepare very carefully. I listen, I empathise. I find the true needs of the parties. And by remembering to talk in terms of their language, in terms of what is important to them, I find out how their dispute may be settled.”

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Time-Limited Mediations training
  • Advanced Mediation Techniques training
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – member (2006)
  • Academy of Experts – Investigations Committee member, Fellow (1994)
  • Chartered Institute of Management – Fellow (1984)
  • Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) – Fellow (1979), associate (1968)
  • Accredited Mediator (QDR) - Academy of Experts 1998
  • Accredited Expert Determiner (QDR) - Academy of Experts 1998

BEYOND MEDIATION

  • ICAEW – Served on several committees; currently on the Ethics Committee and honorary counsellor for Chartered Accountants with ethical problems
  • Spokesman on forensic accountancy for the West Yorkshire Society of Chartered Accountants
  • Speaker and co-organiser of the annual training conference for the Institute of Chartered Accountants Forensic Special Interest Group
  • Writer for professional journals

Chris shares a love of music with his music teacher wife, Gillian, and is principal double-bass for Leeds Symphony Orchestra and West Riding Opera. He collects clocks, is interested in military history, and is a member of Huddersfield Lions Club.

His daughter, Rebecca, has followed him into chartered accountancy.

Contact Chris today to discuss your dispute.

History

History
  • Date

    Nature of dispute

    Outcome

  • Doctor's retirement
    Outcome: Settled
  • Collision at sea
    Outcome: Settled
  • Preferential payments in insolvency
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Diversion of trade
    Outcome: Settled
  • Accountancy fees
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Professional Fee Dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • Property dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • Professional neglicence
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Professional Negligence
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • S994 £7m shareholder dispute
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Shareholder
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Buy to let management
    Outcome: Settled
  • Boundary dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • Director/shareholder dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • Flood damage
    Outcome: Settled
  • Sale of company
    Outcome: Settled
  • Directors, S994, conspiracy
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • S994 unfair prejudice £2m
    Outcome: Settled
  • ToLATA
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Housing disrepair
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Doctors' partnership
    Outcome: Settled
  • Accountant professional negligence
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Insolvency - pursuit of assets
    Outcome: Settled
  • Farming partnership cessation
    Outcome: Settled
  • Solicitor retirement dispute
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Accountancy fees
    Outcome: Settled
  • Trailer Hire Charge
    Outcome: Settled
  • Architect partnership retirement
    Outcome: Settled
  • Probate
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Property maintenance
    Outcome: Settled
  • Partnership dissolution
    Outcome: Settled
  • LLP retirement
    Outcome: Settled
  • Solicitor partnership retirement
    Outcome: Settled
  • Tax professional negligence
    Outcome: Settled
  • Intro fees to CMC solicitor
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Partnership dissolution at end of marriage
    Outcome: Settled
  • Services to PPI company
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Construction joint venture
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Divorce finances
    Outcome: Settled
  • Inheritance Act
    Outcome: Settled
  • Probate
    Outcome: Settled
  • Property & trust funds
    Outcome: Settled
  • Provision of plumbing services
    Outcome: Settled
  • Minority shareholder
    Outcome: Settled
  • Right of way
    Outcome: Settled
  • Tax investigation fees insurance
    Outcome: Settled
  • Accountants' professional negligence
    Outcome: Settled
  • Partnership cessation
    Outcome: Settled
  • Professional negligence
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Partnership
    Outcome: Settled
  • Boundary dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • Commercial supply of electricity
    Outcome: Settled
  • Misuse of beneficiary's funds
    Outcome: Settled
  • Unpaid rent; goods supplied
    Outcome: Settled
  • Leaking restaurant roof
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Unpaid legal fees
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Family loans & property
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Renovation of 35' boat
    Outcome: Settled
  • Neighbour harrassment
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Debt claim
    Outcome: Settled
  • Joint venture property development
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing disrepair
    Outcome: Settled
  • Interior decorator services
    Outcome: Settled
  • Probate
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Tax professional negligence
    Outcome: Settled
  • Propounded codicil dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • Diversion of trade
    Outcome: Settled after date
  • Unfair prejudice (S994)
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Partnership dispute - greyhound syndicate
    Outcome: Settled
  • Contract supply of chickens
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Defective plumbing contract
    Outcome: Settled
  • Supply of goods; loss of profit
    Outcome: Settled
  • Family partnership
    Outcome: Settled
  • Ownership of house' Gujurati speakers
    Outcome: Settled
  • Construction
    Outcome: Settled
  • £25m company sale/purchase
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Legal costs re property dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • Ship repairs
    Outcome: Settled
  • Breach of contract
    Outcome: Settled
  • Employment in Kurgystan
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Probate
    Outcome: Settled
  • Booking of conference venue
    Outcome: Settled
  • Supply of temporary workers
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Probate
    Outcome: Settled
  • Bankers' negligence in contruction contract
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Defamation
    Outcome: Settled
  • Defective flying lessons
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Professional negligence, tax mitigation
    Outcome: Settled
  • Professional negligence
    Outcome: Settled
  • Co director dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing disrepair
    Outcome: Settled
  • Sisters in partnership dispute
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Probate & property dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • Partnership dissolution
    Outcome: Settled
  • Professional negligence re trust deed
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing - wrongful eviction
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing disrepair
    Outcome: Settled
  • Rejected motor vehicle
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing disrepair
    Outcome: Settled
  • Joint venture - housebuilding
    Outcome: Settled
  • Electrical contracting
    Outcome: Settled
  • Construction - boundary
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Construction encroachment
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • Sale of business
    Outcome: Settled
  • Defamation
    Outcome: Settled
  • Sale of company
    Outcome: Settled
  • Partnership dissolution
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing disrepair
    Outcome: Settled
  • Partnership dissolution
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing disrepair
    Outcome: Settled
  • Partnership dissolution
    Outcome: Settled
  • Rejected motor vehicle
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing disrepair
    Outcome: Settled
  • Accountancy fees
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing disrepaie
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing disrepair
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing disrepair
    Outcome: Settled
  • Partnership fraud
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing disrepair
    Outcome: Settled
  • Partnership dissolution
    Outcome: Settled
  • Partnership dissolution
    Outcome: Settled
  • Housing disrepair
    Outcome: Settled
  • Business interruption
    Outcome: Settled

Insurance

Insurance
  • Insurance Provider The Academy of Experts Group PI Insurance
  • Certificate Status Certificate on file
  • Expiry Date 28 February 2025
  • Level of Cover 5000000

CPD & Training

CPD & Training
  • Mediation Training Provider The Academy of Experts
  • Date Qualified as Mediator 18 June 1998
  • Training Certificate Download PDF

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