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Antony Sendall

MA Cantab

Antony is a very experienced and highly-skilled mediator with a wide-ranging mediation practice. This enables him to provide mediation services in many different contexts and not just within a litigation setting. He also has considerable experience as a mediation advocate.

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Antony Sendall
Profession

Profession

Barrister

Profession

Local Panel

South East

Profession

Specialist Panel

Employment

Specialist Panel

Membership Level

Senior

Antony's Experience

Mediation Experience
  • Employment/workplace disputes including, bullying, discrimination and victimisation claims of all sorts, dismissals, whistleblowing claims, terms and conditions disputes and redundancies.
  • Commercial contract claims varying in value between a few thousands of pounds up to a multi-million pound investment banking dispute
  • Numerous restrictive covenants/confidential information disputes
  • Partnership disputes
  • Sports disputes
  • Business tenancy disputes
  • Education disputes, including mediations between universities and their academic staff or students and between schools and staff and between teachers and parents
  • Neighbour disputes, including boundary disputes, nuisance and trespass claims and violent feuds between neighbours where the reference to mediation has emanated from the Police, a local authority, a housing association or landlord
  • Inter-generational disputes between family members, including disputed wills

All mediations are confidential, but some of Antony’s mediated cases have involved very high profile individuals and/or issues in the public spotlight, which have required extremely sensitive and confidential handling. For example, Antony successfully mediated a dispute involving a media organisation and one of its very senior employees concerning allegations of phone-hacking in the context of a particularly high profile police investigation.

Professional Background

Antony was called to the Bar in 1984 and has been a practising barrister at Littleton Chambers specialising in Employment and Commercial Law, but also with considerable experience and expertise in Sports Law and Professional Negligence. He first became accredited as a Civil and Commercial Mediator in 2008 and quickly added Workplace Mediation and Community Mediation to his skillset.

His complementary skills as a barrister have led to him being instructed as a mediator in employment and workplace mediations as well as civil and commercial disputes of all types. In addition, Antony has also become a highly experienced community mediator which has provided him with valuable skills in co-mediation and in applying different mediation models and approaches.

Mediation Style

Antony possesses all of the skills one would expect from an experienced mediation practitioner. He has a highly engaging manner, full of energy, enthusiasm and good humour, whilst remaining empathetic and sensitive. Most mediators like to describe themselves as impartial and neutral, but Antony considers such a stance to be too passive, preferring a rather more proactive approach that is best described as ‘omni-partial’, with sleeves rolled up, working equally hard in the best interests of every party.

Antony also has a very clear focus upon “resolution” (the ‘R’ in ADR), which is not the same as compromise or settlement. He does not view mediation as merely a form of negotiation or ‘horse-trading’ and is not a fan of ‘shuttle diplomacy’. He is not afraid to examine and, if necessary, challenge apparently entrenched positions, assertions of ‘bottom lines’ and ‘over my dead body’ issues. He believes strongly that the scope of potential outcomes is limited only by the imaginations of the participants and expects everyone involved to think creatively and collaboratively.

His considerable experience in community mediation, which follows a very different mediation model from that of commercial mediation, has allowed him to develop and fuse the skills he has acquired in each area giving him a more varied and flexible ‘toolbox’ than many other purely commercial mediators. His very high success rate is undoubtedly the result of his ability to be flexible in his style and approach and to find just the right tool for the job in hand.

Antony continues to make a considerable commitment to pro bono work, both in community and commercial mediation, devoting a minimum of 20 days per year to pro bono matters.

History
  • 27 August 2024
    Disability Discrimination
    Partial Settlement
  • 18 September 2023
    Shareholder Dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • 17 August 2023
    Employment/Restrictive Covenants
    Outcome: Settled
  • 4 August 2022
    Employment Settlement Agreement
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • 29 September 2021
    Workplace Mediation - Dispute between Board of Directors and CEO
    Outcome: Partial Settlement
  • 23 August 2021
    Commercial Mediation - £0.25 billion group action involving large internet platform
    Outcome: Partial Settlement
  • 12 August 2021
    Workplace Mediation - working relationship breakdown between heads of two brands in large recruitment agency
    Outcome: Settled
  • 15 January 2021
    Community Mediation - neighbour dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • 21 December 2020
    Workplace Mediation - Veterinary partnership dispute
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • 16 October 2020
    Community mediation - neighbours
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • 5 August 2020
    Professional partnership dispute - solicitors
    Outcome: Settled
  • 27 July 2020
    Community Mediation - neighbour dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • 10 July 2020
    Community Mediation
    Outcome: Settled
  • 22 June 2020
    Community mediation - neighbour dispute noise nuisance
    Outcome: Settled
  • 3 June 2020
    Workplace mediation concerning return to work by disabled furloughed architect
    Outcome: Settled
  • 17 March 2020
    Workplace Mediation - working relationship breakdown warehouse staff
    Outcome: Partial Settlement
  • 30 August 2019
    Community Mediation - Neighbour dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • 16 August 2019
    Civil & Commercial - Dispute between a residential care home and neighbours over parking, lighting and nuisance
    Outcome: Settled
  • 14 March 2019
    Partnership/Age Discrimination (Claim worth over £6m)
    Outcome: Settled
  • 20 December 2018
    Room to Talk: Family relationship breakdown involving a child with a limited life condition
    Outcome: Settled
  • 1 November 2018
    Employment dispute - business protection and confidential information covenants
    Outcome: Settled
  • 15 October 2018
    Workplace dispute between local authority enforcement officers
    Outcome: Settled
  • 11 July 2018
    Neighbour dispute - Anti-social behaviour from rehabilitation hostel residents
    Outcome: Settled
  • 24 May 2018
    Workplace bullying
    Outcome: Settled
  • 12 November 2017
    Family dispute over contact with child
    Outcome: Settled
  • 3 November 2017
    Inter-generational family relationships dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • 17 October 2017
    Neighbour Dispute
    Outcome: Settled
  • 27 September 2017
    Employment Dispute - Trade Union Activities
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • 15 August 2017
    Workplace Dispute (Local Government - Library Service))
    Outcome: Settled
  • 9 August 2017
    Workplace Dispute (GP Practice)
    Outcome: Settled
  • 4 May 2017
    Workplace
    Outcome: Settled
  • 21 April 2017
    Workplace
    Outcome: Settled
  • 26 February 2016
    Commercial disputed debt
    Outcome: Adjourned
  • 22 October 2015
    Commercial - exclusive distribution agreement
    Outcome: Settled
  • 7 September 2015
    Workplace
    Outcome: Settled
  • 25 August 2015
    Community Mediation: Family Feud
    Outcome: Settled
  • 14 August 2015
    Community Mediation - Light pollution
    Outcome: Settled
  • 8 July 2015
    Education: University/PhD Student
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • 20 April 2015
    Employment
    Outcome: Settled
  • 23 April 2014
    Commercial, Commissions
    Outcome: Settled
  • 27 March 2014
    Workplace
    Outcome: Settled
  • 30 January 2014
    Community Mediation
    Outcome: Settled
  • 23 September 2013
    Community Mediation
    Outcome: Settled
  • 15 July 2013
    Workplace
    Outcome: Settled
  • 21 May 2013
    Commercial Chancery Dispute
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • 9 May 2013
    Workplace
    Outcome: Settled
  • 28 March 2013
    Commercial Employment
    Outcome: Settled
  • 13 December 2012
    Community Mediation
    Outcome: Settled
  • 15 August 2012
    Commercial, Employment
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • 1 June 2012
    Community Mediation
    Outcome: Settled
  • 21 May 2011
    Community Mediation
    Outcome: Settled
  • 11 November 2010
    Commercial
    Outcome: Settled after date
  • 2 June 2010
    Community Mediation
    Outcome: Settled
  • 28 May 2010
    Workplace
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • 18 May 2010
    Commercial
    Outcome: Settled
  • 7 May 2010
    Commercial
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • 27 April 2010
    Employment
    Outcome: Settled
  • 19 March 2010
    Commercial
    Outcome: Settled
  • 3 February 2010
    Workplace
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • 15 December 2009
    Commercial
    Outcome: Settled
  • 9 December 2009
    Community Mediation
    Outcome: Settled after date
  • 3 June 2009
    Commercial
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • 24 February 2009
    Commercial
    Outcome: Settled
  • 18 February 2009
    Commercial
    Outcome: Did Not Settle
  • 16 December 2008
    Commercial
    Outcome: Settled after date

 

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