The role of the Advisory Board will be as follows:

1. Evaluation of the work of the Clinic
2. The provision of assistance and guidance in order to formulate a strategy for its development
3. To serve as a 'sounding board' for community involvement

The membership of the advisory board has been chosen carefully to reflect diversity and to represent members of the judiciary, legal community, mediation provision/training and academia.

The following have agreed to serve on the Board of Advisors:

Ewan Brown

Partner with Slaughter & May. He has substantial experience in a wide spectrum of large commercial disputes, both in court and arbitration proceedings. In England, he has acted on appeals to both appellate courts and in proceedings before the Commissioners of H.M. Revenue and Customs. Ewan's case load has included acting on foreign law disputes before the English Courts and supervising proceedings overseas. Ewan also has extensive experience in conducting investigatory work - principally in the financial services sector - and acting for clients in regulatory disputes.

Richard Grimes

Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programmes at York University's Law School. Richard Grimes qualified as a solicitor in 1977 and worked initially in a law centre and later as a full-equity partner for a provisional law firm, handling a wide range of principally public funded cases. He retained an academic interest in law teaching and researching on a part-time basis for several universities in England and Ireland. In 1990 he joined Sheffield Hallam University where he established an in-house solicitors' practice in which undergraduate law students handled real cases under professional supervision, as an assessed elective. He was seconded to the University of the South Pacific from 1995–1997 where he became the Director of the Institute for Justice and Applied Legal Studies. In 1998 he was appointed Head of Law and Professor of Legal Education at the University of Derby and in 2000 joined The College of Law as Director and Professor of Pro Bono Services and Clinical Education. Since 2006 Richard has acted as an independent consultant on a variety of legal education projects. He has published widely on clinical legal education issues and in the legal skills field. He remains committed to learning by doing.

Andy Grossman

Director of Mediation Services at CEDR. Andy Grossman is Director of Dispute Resolution Services at The Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution. He has been a director of CEDR since 1999 and has been mediating and conducting neutral intervention work since 1995. His commercial mediation experience primarily covers highly contentious professional negligence, planning and construction cases. He also has substantial experience of acting as a neutral to assist in decision-making within public authority environments, or to assist in decisions and negotiations between public authorities and external stakeholders on major projects. He has been a member of CEDR's training faculty for ten years and responsible for providing guidance on ADR and developing model dispute resolution and conflict resolution and conflict management procedures both in the UK and Europe. Andy holds a doctorate of Professional Studies in commercial mediation development.

William Jackson

District Judge Canterbury County Court. District Judge William Jackson has been based at Canterbury County Court for the past 4 years. Prior to his appointment he dealt with a wide variety of civil and family work, but concentrated on head injury and industrial injury cases. Whilst in private practice he had experience of mediation and its effectiveness in resolving what appeared to be intractable disputes. After attending a course run by the Civil Justice Council he chaired a committee which in June 2006 was responsible for the launch of the East Kent Mediation Scheme. This was subsequently rolled out to the entirety of Kent and has recently been supplemented by the appointment of a small claims mediator for the county.

Simon Gurr

Partner with HSA Law Canterbury. Simon Gurr is a solicitor in private practice since 1987 and partner with Hutchings Sharratt Associates, a medium sized solicitors' firm based in Canterbury where he is head of the Employment and Litigation department. Simon deals mostly with contentious and non-contentious employment matters and with commercial litigation and partnership matters for companies and individuals. He is also has over twenty years' experience as an accredited mediator, having dealt with a number of mediations concerning both commercial matters and private disputes forming an increasing part of the practice

Carol Liebman

Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia University New York. Professor Liebman was Counsel to the Massachusetts Department of Correction, 1976-79; clinical professor, Boston College Law School, 1979-91. Visiting clinical professor, Columbia, 1991-92, joining Columbia faculty in 1992 and since then has lectured and taught widely on negotiation, mediation and legal education. She has taught negotiation and mediation in Vietnam, Brazil, Israel and China and designed and presented mediation training for a variety of groups including the Certification Program in Bioethics of Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; New York's First Department, Appellate Division, Attorney Disciplinary Committee; the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and high school students, parents and teachers. Professor Liebman is a member of the New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. She is co-principal investigator of the Mediating Suits against Hospitals (MeSH) project, and was co-principal investigator of the Demonstration Mediation and ADR Project, a part of the Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Professor Liebman is co-author of Mediating Bioethics Disputes: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions.

Jonathan Mance

Supreme Court Justice was called to the Bar in 1965. He became a QC in 1982 and a Bencher in 1989, becoming a Recorder in 1990. He was appointed High Court Judge (Queen's Bench Division) in 1993 and Lord Justice of Appeal in 1999. In 2005 he was appointed Lord Appeal in the Ordinary and raised to the Peerage as Baron Mance of Frognal. He has also served as Chairman of the Banking Appeals Tribunal (1992-93), Chairman of the Consultative Council of European Judges (2000), President of the British Insurance Law Association (2000-02), and Trustee of the European Law Academy (2003).