Paul Randolph is an Accredited Mediator (CEDR June 1999 and SPC: May 2000), and a Barrister, called in 1971. He practises from Field Court Chambers, Gray's Inn, London.

Paul is an experienced mediator, trainer and author on mediation.  He is on the Board of the Civil Mediation Council and Chair of its Communications Committee; a member of the Bar Council ADR Committee, and former Chair of the National Mediation Helpline Provider's Forum. He is Adviser to the Trustees of the Lord Slynn European Law Foundation.  He was External Examiner on Mediation for the Bar Vocational Course at Cardiff University Law School, and is on the Professional Standards Committee of the College of Mediators.

Paul has mediated in a very large number and wide variety of disputes involving commercial, contractual, and employment claims, as well as professional negligence, property, probate, inheritance disputes, and family financial conflicts. His special area of expertise is in the psychology of conflict: conflict management and avoidance. He has lectured on these topics and is involved in mediation awareness seminars and conferences, and mediation skills training programmes,  throughout the UK, Europe, and Asia.

In 1999 he devised a Mediation the course at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology (SPCP), Regent's College, London, and since then has its Course Leader, training and accrediting mediators. 

He has written numerous articles on mediation, and his book Mediation - A Psychological Insight into Conflict Resolution (Continuum 2004), co-written with the late Dr Freddie Strasser, with a Foreword by the late Lord Slynn of Hadley, was favourably reviewed in The Times by Sir Henry Brooke, former Vice President of the Court of Appeal, and current Chair of the Civil Mediation Council.

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