Practice areas
The disputes I mediate.
A deliberately focused civil and commercial practice: vehicle and engineering, property, inheritance, construction, personal injury and commercial work. If your dispute does not fit neatly into one of these, get in touch anyway and I will tell you honestly whether I can help.
Vehicle & engineering disputes
Rejected vehicles, disputed repairs, valuation and total loss, credit hire, and component or product failure. The disputes where the engineering background does real work.
- Vehicle rejection (Consumer Rights Act 2015)
- Repair and works quality
- Valuation, total loss and salvage
Property disputes
Boundaries, neighbours, landlords and tenants, co-owners and shared homes. The disputes that sit closest to where people live, resolved before they harden into litigation.
- Boundary and fence disputes
- Rights of way and access
- Co-owned homes (TOLATA)
Inheritance & trust disputes
Contested wills, claims against an estate, and disagreements between beneficiaries, executors and trustees. Handled with the care a family needs, and the discretion it deserves.
- Contested wills and validity
- Inheritance Act claims
- Executor and trustee disputes
Construction disputes
Defective work, delays, variations and unpaid accounts between homeowners, contractors, developers and professionals. A mediator who can read the drawings.
- Defective or incomplete works
- Final accounts and payment
- Delay and disruption
Personal injury & road traffic
Mediation and facilitated joint settlement meetings in road traffic accident, personal injury, credit hire and clinical negligence claims, from a mediator with a forensic vehicle engineering background.
- Road traffic accident claims
- Liability and causation disputes
- Credit hire and vehicle damage
Commercial & civil disputes
Contracts, partnerships, shareholders, professional services and the general civil claims that businesses and individuals need resolved without losing a year to litigation.
- Contract and supply disputes
- Partnership and shareholder
- Professional services and fees
Also considered
Subject to conflict check: transport and logistics; insurance and indemnity where the underlying question is technical; landlord and tenant dilapidations; and personal injury where I have no expert relationship with any party or insurer.
Sport, competition & coaching
Club and governing-body disputes, selection and eligibility, coaching, welfare and sponsorship, where a working understanding of how competitive sport is actually run matters.
Education & assessment
Schools, colleges and training providers, including assessment and examination disputes. Postgraduate Diploma in Education, University of Bath.
Looking ahead
Mediation today. Arbitration to follow.
The practice is built on mediation and will add arbitration appointments in the years ahead, giving parties a single, independent point of contact for both consensual and determinative dispute resolution.
Start a conversation
Let’s talk about your dispute.
Tell me a little about the situation. I reply personally, usually the same working day, and I will say plainly whether mediation is the right route.
Prefer email? roger@newbydisputeresolution.com · 07500 138470
Roger Newby
Independent Civil & Commercial Mediator