Dr Mary Malecka

Dr Mary Malecka is qualified civil mediator as well as a practising barrister.

Mary uses her knowledge of psychology, well-honed listening skills, rich life experience to facilitate a constructive mediation process.

Experience in mediation with and without legal representation. Skilled at using zoom for remote sessions and using other forms of communication to support the process and facilitate dialogue. Mary has a helpful knowledge of French, Russian and Polish.

Mary assisted many parties in finding resolution. Disputes arise from partnership, board troubles, building and construction disputes, professional and client conflicts, commercial disputes, neighbour difficulties, personal relationships, landlord and tenants, sport and art contexts, quantum decisions, education and student issues.

CMC Registered Civil and Commercial Mediator and a CMC Fellow.

Mary took the City University Law exams, Bar Course and was a Law Lecturer at City University in Company Law. She did her PhD at Nottingham University. Author of two books for the OECD on law to with education of SEND pupils in the OECD member states.

Strongly committed to voluntary and pro bono work as an activist and positive disruptor.

Judging in mediation competitions and debates, she serves on the CMC Standards and Registration Committee. Mary trains and mentors newly qualified mediators.

Serves on the Membership Committee of the Company of Arbitrators as a Liveryman and Court Assistant.

Governing Bencher of her Inn. She has Lacanian clinic training and a small evening practice in psychoanalysis. Mary trains expert witnesses through Wilmington plc (Bond Salon) for over 50 firms of Solicitors, UK and abroad.

A rich and varied career. Born in Poland, she was a high fashion photographic model for Elle and Vogue in Paris, London and Chicago. She worked with David Bailey, Helmut Newton, Normal Parkinson, and Victor Skrebneski. Academic life included a year at the Sorbonne. Trained as a Russian interpreter in London. A teacher in Leicester, where she was a trade union activist and an Education and Worplace Mediator. Her work in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) as a trade union activist provided a solid background for becoming a Barrister Mediator.

Crossed the Sahara, raised two children and has been a stand-up comic.

Prior to mediation Mary will always take the time to have a confidential and informal discussion with parties.

To make an enquiry for Dr Mary Malecka’s mediation services email mediationclerks@gclaw.co.uk or fill in our enquiry form.

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