Michel Kallipetis KC

Practice Areas

Michel regularly mediates a wide variety of disputes including: partnerships; banking; insurance and re-insurance; all areas of employment disputes including racial and sex discrimination claims and pension rights; solicitors and valuers’ negligence claims; medical negligence and personal injuries claims; construction, engineering and commercial disputes with claims over several £100m including referrals from the Commercial Court and the Technology & Construction Court. Many of the mediations have been multi party disputes and others have involved international companies and the laws of other countries. He has mediated for the ICC and the AAA.

Michel is an Accredited Mediator with CEDR and ADR Chambers. He was a founder of member of Independent Mediators in 2006. He was appointed to the Hong Kong HKIAC Accredited Mediator Panel and as one of the first CIArb Mediation Fellows in 2008.

In 2009 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and in 2014 was invited to become a director. He is currently the President of the International Academy of Mediators. In 2012 Michel was invited to become a member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre’s Panel of Mediators. He is a member of The Sports Resolution Panel and The Panel of Independent Mediators and is a Chartered Arbitrator.

In May 2017 and 2019 Michel was awarded ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in the Mediation category at the annual Who’s Who Legal awards.

He initiated and was the first Chairman of the Bar Council ADR Committee holding the position for 9 years until retiring from the position in summer of 2008. He was a member of the working party which drafted the EU Code of Practice for Mediators, and gave expert opinion to JURI, the legal service committee of the European Parliament, prior to its adopting the European ADR Directive. He was counsel for the ADR Group in Halsey v Milton Keynes, and in Brown v Rice and Patel.

He was an appointed Observer for the International Academy of Mediators and The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators as part of UNCITRAL’s WGII which drafted the Singapore Convention.

Michel is the former Head of Littleton Chambers, and has 40 years’ experience as a practising barrister in the field of general commercial, professional negligence and employment work. He is recognised in The Legal Directories as an expert in his field in Mediation, Commercial Litigation and Professional Negligence.

Career

Michel is the former Head of Littleton Chambers, and has 40 years’ experience as a practising barrister in the field of general commercial, professional negligence and employment work. He is recognised in The Legal Directories as an expert in his field in Mediation, Commercial Litigation and Professional Negligence. He is an Accredited Mediator with CEDR and ADR Chambers, was appointed to the Hong Kong HKIAC Accredited Mediator Panel and as one of the first CIArb Mediation Fellows in 2008. In 2009 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and in 2014 was invited to become a director. In 2012 Michel was invited to become a member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre’s Panel of Mediators. He is a member of The Sports Resolution Panel and The Panel of Independent Mediators and is a Chartered Arbitrator. He is fluent in German, and has a working knowledge of French.

Professional Memberships

- Hong Kong HKIAC Accredited Mediator Panel

· CIArb Mediation Fellow

· Distinguished Fellow and Former President of the International Academy of Mediators

· Singapore International Mediation Centre’s Panel of Mediators

· Japan International Mediation Centre’s Panel of Mediators

· Member of Sport Resolution (UK) panel

· PIM Senior Mediator

· Fellow of CMC

· International Mediation Institute Certified Mediator

· Chartered Arbitrator

Publications

He regularly conducts training sessions for barristers and solicitors to enable them to represent their clients more effectively in mediation. He has carried out mediation training for the Hong Kong judiciary at the request of the Chief Justice, and the for the Bar in England, Hong Kong, Trinidad and Jersey. Michel led a team to train Arbitrators for the Kingdom of Bhutan at the request of the Chief Justice and arbitrates disputes in the UK concerning commercial and franchise agreements. He is a Recorder and sat as a deputy High Court Judge in Queen’s Bench, Chancery and the TCC for over twenty years.

Books/articles:

He is the author of several articles on mediation in the English legal press.

He is the author of a chapter on ‘Mediation in Employment disputes’ in “Mediators on Mediation”

Co-author with Stephen Ruttle KC of the chapter on “Mediation in the UK” in Volume I of ‘Mediation in Business’ published by Kluwer

Author of the chapter on ‘Mediation Privilege and Confidentiality and the EU Directive’ in Volume II.

Author of the Chapter on ‘Mediation Ethics’ in “How to Master Commercial Mediation” published by Bloomsbury in January 2015.

Languages Spoken

He is fluent in German, and has a working knowledge of French.

Awards

Industry Sector Expertise

A brief overview of areas of practice:

Banking / Finance

Commercial contracts

Commercial fraud / Fraud

Company shareholders

Competition

Construction and engineering

Defamation

Employment

Franchise

Group actions

Insolvency

I.T.

Insurance / reinsurance

Intellectual Property

International

Local and national government

Medical negligence / Personal injury

Oil and gas

Partnerships

Pensions

Probate / Trusts / Estates

Professional negligence

Property

Regulatory

Sport

Transport / logistics