Accredited as a mediator by both the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) and the British Academy of Experts (QDR)in 1995; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Chartered Arbitrator; Founded ACI (A Commercial Initiative for Dispute Resolution) based in London in 1997 (now in association with In Place of Strife); CPR New York Panel for distinguished international arbitrators and mediators; Member of the ICDR/AAA Oil & Gas Panel; Member of the Lloyd's Arbitration Scheme Panel; Panel Member for both mediation and arbitration with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, California (IAM).
Elizabeth was one of the first members of the English commercial Bar to become accredited as a mediator, in 1995, she is highly experienced and has sat as mediator in a very substantial number of commercial disputes including high value, technical, multi-party and international cases. She also frequently sits as arbitrator in commercial and international disputes within her areas of expertise.
She was a member of both the first ADR Commercial Court Working Party chaired by Mr Justice Colman into the use of mediation and early neutral evaluation in the English Commercial Court, which led to the early Commercial Court Practice Directions on ADR, and the ADR Service Providers Association working party, chaired by Sir Brian Neill, which led to the creation of the Civil Mediation Council in London. She was a member of the Bar Council ADR Committee, the Bar Council Arbitration Committee, the British Maritime Law Association, the LMAA and the CIArb Arbitration Clubs Maritime and Oil & Gas Branches.
Recommended for ADR in every edition of Chambers & Partners Directory since 1998-1999 and was named as one of the top ten mediators in the UK in two surveys carried out in 2002 and 2005.
