Rob McCreath is a CEDR and ADR (Online) accredited meditator, a facilitator and an investigator with many years’ experience of:

•    objectively and independently investigating workplace issues;

 

•    helping parties to resolve employment and workplace disputes as a neutral mediator;

 

•    enabling workplace discussions as a neutral facilitator; and 

•    advising on strategic and employment and governance issues. 

He qualified as a solicitor in 1990, was accredited as a mediator by CEDR in 2004 and as an online mediator by ADR Group in 2020. (Note: he does not provide legal advice and no longer holds a practising certificate which would enable him to do so.)

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Since 2004, he has acted successfully as mediator in a wide variety of employment and workplace-related situations, including issues such as line management relationships, performance management, mental health in the workplace, whistleblowing, discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation.

As a partner in specialist employment law firm Archon Solicitors from 2005 to 2018, he acted for both employers and employees in relation to employment and related issues in a huge variety of sectors (see below for more details). 

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He is probably best-known for his work in the higher & further education, professional services, charity and luxury brand sectors.

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On several occasions he has been appointed as an independent person to hear appeals against dismissal or against grievance decisions. He has also conducted independent investigations into employment-related allegations, including of discrimination and harassment.

He is a trustee and non-executive director of Box Clever, an innovative and inspiring theatre charity for young people.

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For 3 years, he was independent Ombudsperson at Global Water Partnership, an international NGO dedicated to working with countries towards the equitable, sustainable, and efficient management of water resources.​

Education

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• St Edmund Hall, Oxford University (BA Hons)

• City University, London (Postgraduate Diploma in Law – Distinction)

• College of Law (now University of Law), Guildford (Solicitors’ Finals)

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Sectors and issues

Rob has been involved in dealing with disputes in the following sectors and involving the following issues:

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