Mediation avoids the high financial and emotional costs associated with going to court. It is private, voluntary and confidential, with a focus of reaching full settlement and allowing you to move on with life. Grant has 30 years experience as a litigation lawyer either as a partner in a law firm and, since 1993, as a barrister. He commenced working as a mediator as a result of requests from other lawyers to assist them in sorting out differences between their clients. Grant has now conducted over 100 private mediations and of these all but 5 have concluded with a full settlement meaning that Grant has an overall success rate in terms of achieving settlement of 95%+.