Stephen Boyd BSc(Hons), PG Cert (Sports Law), CTAPS, Dip Arb, Barrister, FCIArb is a qualified mediator General Information Barrister Stephen Boyd is a senior barrister with a broad civil practice dealing mainly with contentious trusts and probate, property and commercial disputes. He is an ACTAPS registered contentious trust and probate specialist. Mediator Stephen has been a CEDR accredited mediator since 2001. He is Civil Mediation Council registered. He has mediated disputes including: claims under the Inheritance (Family and Dependants) Act 1975, involving spouses, cohabitants and adult children. contentious trusts and probate property, including boundary disputes and rights of way sale of goods landlord and tenant shareholder issues partnership professional negligence in relation to solicitors, surveyors, and accountants construction estate agent's commission leasing franchising Arbitrator Stephen is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is on CEDR's commercial arbitration panel. Commercial experience Before starting practice as a barrister, Stephen worked several years for international trading companies in Hong Kong and South Africa, dealing with import, export, wholesale and retail businesses. Mediation style Stephen is down to earth, empathetic, good at building rapport with parties and putting them at their ease. He has a calm, commercial approach and is adept at reality testing. He brings people skills, business experience and legal knowledge to the resolution of disputes. His proficiency in several languages (French, Russian and Swedish) has proved useful in breaking the ice with foreign parties. What others say about Stephen "Stephen Boyd mediated an acrimonious and difficult dispute recently. It was a partnership dispute between family members over property worth a few million pounds. He was courteous, able and focussed. Stephen was able to build a rapport with the parties to ensure that enough trust was built so that a settlement was reached. I was impressed with Stephen's grip on the issues and the fact that he went the extra mile to make sure that heads of terms were agreed. I would certainly use Stephen again for mediation": Gary Blaker KC. Memberships He is a member of the Chancery, Property and Commercial Bar Associations. Publications Stephen has co-written the chapter on image rights in all four editions of Sport: Law and Practice, edited by Lewis and Taylor), and has written several articles on various legal topics. He is also a contributor to the Property volume of the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents. Interests Stephen has appeared in several plays.