Roy Lewis

Roy Lewis has extensive experience of private labour arbitration and mediation in a variety of industries, including oil, banking, insurance, air traffic, railways, education, motors, food, electrical contracting, timber, tobacco, printing, media and entertainment.

He was (together with Professor Jon Clark) the co author of the proposal for an arbitral alternative to the employment tribunals, which was taken up by both the previous and present UK governments, and in modified form has been embodied in the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998

Appointments

1985-to date Member of ACAS Panel of Arbitrators/Mediators (Trade Disputes)

1994-96 National Adjudication Appeal Hearing, Clinical Regrading Exercise, National Health Service

1997 Independent Person under the JNC Conditions for Local Government Chief Executives

1998-to date Chairman, Royal Mail National Appeals Panel

1999-to date President, Administrative Tribunal, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

2000-to date Deputy Chairman, Central Arbitration Committee

2001-to date Member of ACAS Panel of Arbitrators (Unfair Dismissals)

Examples of arbitration experience

Experience of arbitration (arranged throught ACAS or privately) in many industries, including oil, banking, insurance, air traffic, railways, education, motors, food, electrical contracting, electricity supply, timber, tobacco, printing, media and entertainment.

Matters arbitrated have included disputes over pay, discipline and terms and conditions of employment.

Examples of mediation experience

2001 : mediation of differences between a County Fire Service and its recognised trade union focusing on the interaction between the separate procedures on collective disputes, discipline, and individual grievances and the breakdown in personal realtions among the leading actors; the mediation culminated in a report agreed by the parties, which led in turn to a significant inproval in industrial and human relations.

2002 : mediation of a legal dispute between an NHS Trust and one of its employees, who had initiated legal proceedings claiming compensation for sex and race discrimination and equal pay; the process culminated in a compromise agreement between the parties.

Examples of Publications

1990 "Strike Free Deals and Pendulum Arbitration" British Journal of Industrial Relations

1993 (With Jon Clark) Employment Rights, Industrial Tribunals, and Arbitration: the Case for Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Employment Rights
(proposed scheme for an arbitral alternative to the tribunals, which in modified form was embodied in the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998 and the ACAS Arbitration Scheme)

1995 (With Jon Clark and Catherine Barnard) The Exercise of Individual Employment Rights in the Member States of the European Community Research Series No 49 Employment Department (research commissioned by the Department

1998 "The Employment Rights (Disputes Resolution) Act 1998" Industrial Law Journal