Initially coming to mediation as an advocate, James trained as a mediator in 2015. Prior to coming the bar James was a Chartered Accountant with a particular emphasis on family-owned companies. He is now a fellow of the ICAEW. He is able to draw on this commercial expertise, combined with fifteen years of practice in commercial and chancery litigation, to identify the central issues in disputes and pragmatic solutions to them. James has mediated a broad range of disputes, but he has a particular emphasis on director/ shareholder disputes and disputes concerning accountants. James also sits part-time as a judge in the County Court and conducts early neutral evaluations and judge led settlement hearings.