Professor Derek P Auchie

Derek has a broad dispute resolution practice with over 25 years’ experience as a practising lawyer, academic, mediator, arbitrator (in both domestic and international commercial cases), and tribunal judge (Chair).

Derek’s experience of contract, personal injury, employment, family, debt, property, tenancies, mental health, education, immigration and criminal matters, as a solicitor or tribunal judge, has exposed him to people and conflict in many walks of life. His deep understanding of how disputes arise, how they escalate and how they might be resolved is invaluable to his mediation practice.

Derek has been mediating since 2014  and is  accredited by the Scottish Mediation Network. In 2016, he was appointed as a Weinstein JAMS International Fellow. He has expertise in mediating workplace, employment organisational and commercial conflicts and is now expanding his practice to mediate a broader range of disputes.

Derek holds a Chair in Dispute Process Law at the UK top ten School of Law, at the University of Aberdeen, where he has been teaching and publishing on the law and practice of dispute resolution for almost 20 years. He gained the internationally recognised qualification of Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2011.