• Established the mediation practice Olive Mediation Group to work with businesses, employees, families, communities, neighbours, and separating couples to find lasting resolutions to their disputes and areas of disagreement. • Currently on contract with the Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy), providing welfare support, along with workplace, community and family mediation for serving military personnel […]
Carol Scott
A Housing Association Director for 25 years, Carol became interested in mediation as a means of resolving tenant, contractual and other disputes. She trained as a mediator in 2003, becoming a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and joining the panel of voluntary mediators at Edinburgh Sheriff Court the same year. Carol has remained […]
Alun Thomas
Alun Thomas is an employment lawyer who has worked in the field for over 30 years. In the last 10 years he has come to realise that mediation is very often a better route to resolving workplace and employment difficulties than following formal grievance or complaints processes. A partner at Anderson Strathern he leads their […]
Linn Phipps
Linn believes that mediation offers a “safe” opportunity for a facilitated exploration of issues through dialogue, with the aim of seeking opportunities to resolve disputed issues. Linn brings to mediation a coaching style and a desire to help people to achieve their potential through improving their relationships, and to resolve conflict. She describes her approach […]
Fiona O’Donnell
Workplace and Commercial Mediator since 2004 Accredited Specialist by the Law Society of Scotland in Commercial Mediation since 2005 Lead mediator for edr at the University of Dundee Associate of The Mediation Partnership, Aberdeen