APIL Senior Fellow Paul Balen, Trust Mediation Chairman Tim Wallis together with fellow Trust Mediation colleagues review the changes to the NHS Resolution Mediation Scheme and introduce Evaluative Mediation which is now included.
This is a “must listen to webinar” for all those conducting litigation of any kind against NHS trusts and GPs.
The new 4 year contract came into force on 1 August 2025 and applies for all mediations after that date.
The session will cover:
- The different types of mediation
- The new fixed time model and fee bands
- The Trust Mediation NHS Resolution approved mediators
- The Trust mediation enquiry system explained
- Trips and slips in preparing for out of court dispute resolution
Paul graduated with a first in law at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He qualified as a solicitor in 1977 and became a partner in what is now Freeths in 1980. He is now a (very) part time Consultant.
A Past President of both the Nottinghamshire Law and the Nottinghamshire Medico-legal Societies in 2000 he was appointed one of the first three Senior Fellows of the APIL. He was national secretary and an executive committee member of APIL between 1998 and 2000.
He is an accredited APIL clinical negligence specialist. He also specialises in clinical personal injury and product liability cases and is well known as a co-ordinator of multi-party actions and the creative use of settlement schemes. He successfully negotiated compensation schemes following the claims brought by the parents of the victims of Beverley Allitt; patients who had received 3M and ABG hip prostheses; women who had received Trilucent and Hydrogel breast implants, women who received faulty cervical smear results and children who had wrongly been diagnosed with and treated for epilepsy. Now largely retired from day to day practice he still acts for victims of mycobacterium chimaera contracted from defective heater cooler units used in heart operations... view full biography
Tim Wallis is a solicitor (1978), a mediator (2004) and Chair of Trust Mediation (TM) (2013) a provider of specialist mediators for personal injury and clinical negligence claims. Tim led TM’s tender bid to conduct pi and clin neg mediations under the NHS Resolution mediation scheme. He contributes the ADR sections for “The White Book” and “APIL Personal Injury Law, Practice and Precedents” and he commissioned the publication of “The Jackson ADR Handbook” on behalf of the Civil Justice Council. Special interests: un-settleable claims, multi-party claims and online dispute resolution. TM settlement rates: approx. 85%+ pi and 75%+ clin neg. ... view full biography