Andrew Miller KC

Practice Areas

Mediation Practice

Andrew Miller KC practices as a full-time mediator both in the UK and internationally. Andrew is one of only four barrister Silks (KC) listed in Band 1 of Chambers and Partners UK Bar listing for mediators. Andrew has been acting as a mediator for 10 years and became a full-time mediator 6 years ago, following a distinguished and impressive career as a barrister spanning over 28 years. As a barrister and now as a mediator he has managed and resolved countless commercial disputes both domestically and internationally. Andrew also practices as an arbitrator.

He offers his services worldwide across a broad spectrum of commercial sectors. His expertise and practice include commercial, company, construction, energy, insolvency, insurance and reinsurance, landlord and tenant, partnership disputes, property, property damage, professional negligence and shareholder disputes.

Andrew stands out for his progressive and passionate approach, advocating ‘Early-Stage’ Mediation and a provides balanced combination of facilitative and evaluative mediation. Andrew has been involved in the mediation of disputes since 1995. He has experience of over 350 mediations across a wide range of disputes. Andrew has acted as lead mediator in commercial disputes valued from £10,000 to over £500 million. Andrew has unique access to ‘mediation dust’ which he sprinkles liberally at his mediations to create the mediation magic that leads to the resolution of disputes and the ‘Gift of Settlement’.

Andrew has mediated disputes with parties and lawyers based in the UK, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Dubai, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Lithuania, Maldives, Montenegro, New Zealand, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and the USA.

Andrew was awarded the prestigious NMA Civil & Commercial Mediator of the Year for 2020-2022. In 2022, he was recognised and made a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM). This is a rare honour for a UK mediator by the USA based institution. Andrew is also one of 15 mediators appointed to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors’ President’s Panel of Mediators.

In 2023 Andrew was inducted into the law faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine Caruso Law as part of an international team of experienced mediation practitioners presenting an Advanced Mediation programme at Chateau d’ Hauteville, in Vevey, Lake Geneva Switzerland.

Andrew regularly speaks about mediation in the UK and internationally. Over the last six years he has been involved with a series of prestigious international workshops and seminars in Cambodia, Dubai, Greece, India, Philippines and Singapore. He spoke at the Singapore International Mediation Centre in September 2018 and at the Singapore Mediation Convention Week in 2023 as part of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Ciarb) event. In September 2024 he was one of the guest speakers at the ADR Hellenic Hub Mediation Festival held in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Andrew is very well known in India and has been involved in the judging of several of the prestigious Mediation and Negotiation competitions held in the Indian universities and colleges of law. In January 2020 he was invited to speak at the Supreme Court of India on Mediation and its relationship with Litigation and the relationship between mediators and litigators. He returned to India in March 2023 for the IX edition of the RMLNLU/2TG mediation competition. In April 2023 he again addressed the Nivaaran Mediators of the Supreme Court of India in person in Delhi and in 2024 he addressed the judiciary and senior advocates at the Bombay High Court in Mumbai.

Andrew Miller KC has been a trustee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since January 2019.

FEEDBACK TESTIMONIALS FOR 2024

Andrew is a highly skilled mediator. He quickly identified a range within which the parties might settle and worked towards that and also stepped in when required during the negotiation of the more difficult finer details to ensure the deal for over the line on the day (or night, as the case was!)

Solicitor Partner

I believe that Andrew's mediation skills and abilities and his outstanding commitment and professionalism throughout the mediation were key factors in the successful resolution of the dispute between the parties. I was very impressed with his pragmatic and business-minded approach and his direct and straightforward style of play. We would certainly recommend Andrew as a mediator to others and we would seek to appoint him if we had another mediation dispute.

Solicitor Partner

Andrew showed tremendous experience, psychological skills, business orientation and leadership in guiding the parties to a successful conclusion of the mediation with a Settlement Agreement. The mediation conducted by Andrew Miller KC has been a unique and valuable learning experience for me personally, but I believe also for all others involved in the mediation.

CFO of Mediation Party

Andrew is commercial, personable and gave the impression of being genuinely neutral, but still robust and challenging when discussing both parties’ respective positions. Andrew generated trust and confidence.

Insurer Claims Handler

Andrew is an excellent Mediator. His mediator skills made a decisive difference to the outcome of the mediation. He gave us the confidence to know that that he was trying hard to explain our position to the other side while conveying to us (even if not explicitly) what might be the other side’s red lines.

CEO of Mediation Party

Andrew, I think is a man who gets things done, helping the parties help themselves. Andrew did not let the technical merits unduly get in the way of the real goal of settlement. He also assisted with the technical details of settlement agreement.

Insurer Claims Handler

Andrew is skilled in listening, persuasion, good communication, problem solving, resolution and is also very personable.

Solicitor Partner

Andrew is very 'user friendly', sensible clear approach taken, understanding/identifying the real 'pinch points' early on.

In house Solicitor for Ministry of Justice

Andrew performed very well, adopting an amicable style which helped in making the parties / clients feel more at ease. Given his extensive commercial experience, Andrew was great at providing the parties with a reality check and managing to reach a settlement only 4 hours into the mediation. We would definitely recommend him to our colleagues and hope to work with him again in the future.

Solicitor Partner

Andrew suggested a pragmatic approach which was well suited to the parties and the resolution of the dispute.

Counsel for mediation party

Career

1989 Barrister (Called to the Bar in Inner Temple)

2000 Fellow of the Charted Institute of Arbitrators

2014 King’s Counsel (Silk)

2016 Mediation 4 Construction & Insurance Mediation Panel

2017 CEDR Mediation Panel

2018 In Place of Strife (IPOS) Mediation Panel

2019 RICS Panel of Mediators

2020 NMA Civil & Commercial Mediator of the Year for 2020-2022.

2020 Trustee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)

2020 RICS President’s Panel Mediator 2020.

2020 LCAM Mediation Panel

2022 Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM)

2023 Faculty member of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine Caruso Law teaching the Advanced Mediation programme at Chateau d’ Hauteville, in Vevey, Lake Geneva Switzerland – ‘Mediating the Litigated Case’

Professional Memberships

2000 Arbitrator FCIArb

2014 CEDR Accredited Mediator

2019 RICS Accredited Evaluative Mediator

2022 Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM)