Stephen Ruttle

Stephen Ruttle KC is one of the UK’s leading mediators.  Having, by October 2018, mediated almost 1500 disputes of every type in both the private and public sector there are few disputes which Stephen has not dealt with. Although his practice began in the shipping, insurance and reinsurance markets (which were his areas of expertise as Counsel) he now views himself as a mediator of any dispute rather than of a particular sector.  Most of the disputes that Stephen handles concern claim value of six or seven figures but many have been into the hundred of millions and, on occasion, billions.  Stephen mediates mainly in London, but mediates regularly in other parts of the UK and Ireland and in many jurisdictions abroad.  For the last four years he has been one of Who’s Who Legal’s Top 10 most respected Commercial Mediators in the world. In 2017 he featured in a new list, Who’s Who Legal “Thought Leaders: Mediation” as one of only ten in the world and in 2018 Stephen was included in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame for excellence in mediation.

Stephen is increasingly active as a mediator of community and faith-based disputes. He is currently involved in projects that aim to train a new generation of peacemakers and to use faith-group buildings as places from which community mediation services can operate as neighbourhood reconciliation centres.

Westminster School  Queen’s Scholar 1966-1971.

Queens’ College Cambridge 1971- 1975.  B.A.Honours Degree in English Literature/Law.

Bencher Gray’s Inn 2004

Accredited and Registered by CEDR as a Mediator 1998