Elissa Da Costa-Waldman

London

Elissa has both expertise and experience as a mediator and a strong commitment to ensuring that parties reach a solution on terms with which they are both content. She has tremendous people skills and recognises that often there are issues outside the mediation room that need addressing before a successful mediation can take place.

Elissa is tenacious in enabling and facilitating parties to explore all options so that they arrive at a solution to their dispute that the parties can feel is their own and not something imposed upon them.

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Profession

Barrister

Local Panel

London

Specialist Panel

Civil Disputes

Membership Level

Elite

Elissa's Experience

Areas of Expertise

Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act (TOLATA)
Financial remedies
Children disputes

Mediation Style

Elissa has an empathic, sensitive and yet robust and lively style to her mediations, enabling parties to air their emotional issues, often a barrier to successful mediation, in order to pave the way forward for creative solutions to be found and considered and parties to feel empowered that they are the authors of their outcome.

Professional Background

Elissa is a Barrister of thirty five years standing. She has a strong commitment to resolving disputes out of court and is a quaified mediator, collaborative lawyer and family law arbitrator (finance and children). Elissa's particular expertise is in TOLATA claims (Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996) considering these claims to be especially well suited to mediation given the unpredictability of the court decision making process.

Memberships

Family Law Bar Association
Civil Mediation Council

History

17 November 2016
TOLATA
Adjourned
25 March 2015
TOLATA
Settled
20 February 2015
Family Finance
Settled
22 October 2014
Shares Dispute
Settled
4 October 2013
Inheritance
Settled
21 January 2013
Family Finance
Settled
19 January 2012
TOLATA
Did Not Settle
24 November 2010
Family Finance
Settled
24 May 2010
Family Dispute
Did Not Settle
2 February 2010
Family Finance
Settled
17 December 2009
Family Finance
Settled
22 October 2009
Family Dispute
Settled
9 September 2009
Family Dispute
Settled
23 June 2009
Family Dispute
Settled
22 June 2009
Family Dispute
Settled
05 June 2009
Family Dispute
Settled
02 April 2009
Family Dispute
Settled
8 May 2009
Family Finance
Settled
16 March 2009
Family Finance
Settled
10 September 2008
Court of Appeal (Family)
Settled
8 September 2006
Family Dispute
Settled
16 January 2006
Family Finance
Settled
11 November 2005
Family Finance
Adjourned
10 March 2004
Family Finance
Settled
27 June 2003
Family Dispute
Settled
2 April 2003
Family Dispute
Settled

Elissa's Testimonials

I just wanted to pass on my deepest thanks for all you did for us at the mediation last week to achieve a fair result. It wasn't the financial outcome that made the greatest difference (though my goodness, that was life changing in itself!), but the fact you helped us to finally draw a line under it.

Your artful mediation, kindness and empathy will never be forgotten. I could see immediately that you had as much emotional intelligence as you do academic intelligence, and that's both rare and heartening. Thank goodness for you and all your hard work.

I can not imagine the number of people you must have helped over the course of your career, but I wanted to let you know that I, for one, will never forget it.

Elissa Da Costa-Waldman

London

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