Chris Makin is a chartered accountant with a vast range of experience, firstly as a general practitioner and for the last 20 years as a forensic accountant and expert witness. Previously National Head of Litigation Support in a national firm, he now practises mainly as a commercial mediator, with expert determinations and forensic assignments for good measure.
As mediator he has dealt with many types of dispute, including business purchase and sale, partnerships, contractual failings, professional negligence, construction, contracting, rights of way, boundaries, fees, defamation, playwrights, fraud, housing disrepair, expensive motor cars, ToLATA and probate disputes, and many more.
Mediation is now a very important stage in the litigation process, and it usually results in a prompt settlement to even the most complex and highly charged disputes. Chris has mediated some very challenging cases, where the parties even refused to sit in the same room at the start, yet his personal settlement rate is running at about 80%.
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