Michel Kallipetis Q.C.

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Qualified: 
Arbitrator
Mediator
Specialist Areas: 
Commercial
Employment and workplace
Financial services and banking
International
Professional Negligence
Education: 
University College London

LLB
Additional Experience: 
 Professional Memberships
Chartered Arbitrator FCIArb 
Employment Law Bar Association
Professional Negligence Bar Association
COMBAR
TECBAR
Bar European Group
LCIA
ICC
Judicial History: 
1989 Recorder
1993 Deputy Official Referee
1994 Deputy High Court Judge, QB
1998 Deputy High Court Judge, Chancery
Deputy Judge of the Technology and Construction Court

General Information: 
Commercial Law
Instructed in actions involving
  • partnerships (dissolution, partnership accounts disputes and continuation)
  • several media cases involving a variety of contractual issues (including management agreements, film contracts and recording agreements (Shirley Bassey, Pierce Brosnan, Status Quo, Harvey Goldsmith, J&M, Technicolor and Warner Bros)
  • insurance (including professional indemnity)
  • general banking
  • international contracts involving conflict of laws.

Professional Indemnity
Regularly instructed by SIF and other PI firms in professional indemnity claims brought against solicitors and barristers in respect of a wide variety of cases, including Elton John v Price Waterhouse.

Employment Law
His practice in the employment field covers all aspects of contract, restrictive covenants, dismissal, discrimination, disciplinary action, transfer of undertakings and health and safety at work. He acted for the major construction companies who constructed the Thames Barrier and the Channel Tunnel, and he is instructed regularly by Health Authorities and Hospital Trusts.

Mediation and Arbitration experience
Mediates regularly in a variety of disputes concerning partnerships, banking, insurance and re-insurance, employment and pension rights, solicitors’ and valuers’ negligence, and commercial contract disputes with claims over £100 million, including referrals from the Commercial Court.

Used by CEDRSolve, ADR Chambers and Littleton Disputes Resolution Ltd. Chairman of Bar Council Committee on ADR. Arbitrates disputes in the UK concerning commercial and franchising contracts. Last year he led a team to train arbitrators for the Kingdom of Bhutan at the request of the Chief Justice and has recently mediated a dispute between the main contractor, engineers and sub-contractor involving the construction of the London Dockland Railway tunnel under the Thames.