Rosemary Jackson KC

Rosemary Jackson is in full-time practice as a Mediator and Conciliator and has embraced virtual mediation since April 2020 with great effect. This follows a successful practice at the Construction Bar from 1983, when she joined Keating Chambers as the first female specialist building counsel at the English Bar, until October 2014. Up to January 2018, Rosemary also accepted appointments as an Adjudicator and Arbitrator. Rosemary was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 2006. Rosemary received the Clare Edwards Award for professional excellence and contribution to the legal profession serving the construction industry in 2018. The award, which is sponsored by TECSA and the Contractor’s Legal Group, is awarded when an exceptional candidate is identified. Rosemary has also been awarded ‘Mediation Expert of the Year in the United Kingdom’ in the 2021 Lawyer Network Annual Awards, and ’Lawyer of the Year – Mediation’ in the 2021 Who’s Who Legal Awards. Rosemary is Patron of the London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation. Mediation and Conciliation “Rosemary is a very good mediator who successfully assists in reaching a settlement in difficult multi-party proceedings which would otherwise be unobtainable.” (Chambers UK 2024). Rosemary Jackson has got “this amazing energy and won’t give up.” (Chambers UK 2024). “An exceptionally good mediator” Rosemary “is very calm and measured. She is also very, very tenacious.” (Chambers UK 2024). She is able to “energise the parties in the right direction for them to find a solution.” (Chambers UK 2024). She “quickly wins the confidence of clients with her knowledge of the issues, and appears to have endless reserves of patience, enthusiasm and optimism.” (Legal 500 2022) Rosemary has been an accredited mediator since 2001 and has built up a first class reputation as having “the perfect tone for mediation, in that she is careful, tactful and forceful….. knows the law, is well respected and gets results.” (Chambers UK 2022) She is featured  as a Tier 1 Mediator by Legal 500 and is recognised in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame for mediators, and listed in Band 1 (Mediation) by Chambers and Partners UK and UK Bar Guides 2022, having been ranked as a mediator since 2010. She is consistently listed as a Thought Leader in Who’s Who Legal: Construction, and as a Global Elite Thought Leader in Who’s Who Legal: Mediation and Commercial Mediation 2022. Her background in construction litigation, combined with good preparation, enables her to identify the issues incisively. This enables her to reality-test the parties’ cases and assist them in evaluating their strengths and weaknesses. Rosemary’s approach is adaptable, and she is able to deploy a blend of facilitation and evaluation to suit the particular mediation. Where invited (and if appropriate) she is willing to assist the parties by making evaluations, recommendations or post-mediation assessments. Rosemary’s approach is highly commercial. She has mediated and co-mediated disputes up to £2bn and between up to 10 parties. Many complex or multi-party mediations benefit from Rosemary’s ability to case-manage the dispute and participate in a structured mediation process over a number of months. Feedback shows that Rosemary is much appreciated for her calmness and patience but also her tenacity. She understands that parties sometimes need time and patience to make the necessary move to clinch a deal but also that there are times when firm handling is needed to help them bridge the seemingly unbridgeable final gap. She is excellent at injecting a little humour when necessary, to relieve the tension. She is also mindful that it must be the right deal for the parties, and not one which they feel bullied into. She has also understood the added pressures on parties attending virtual mediations.

• Member of Civil Mediation Council
• CEDR-accredited and registered Mediator since 2001
• CEDR Solve panel Mediator
• SIMC International Mediator
• TECBAR panel mediator
• Arbitration and Mediation Court of the Caribbean panel Mediator
• Asian International Arbitration Centre panel Mediator
• New Zealand International Arbitration Centre Panel Mediator
• Project Advisor to ENGI Participatory Peacemaking Project for Cyprus in 2013
• Independent Chair of Euston and Camden Community Group engagement meetings in relation to HS2 2016-2020.

Previous Experience Whilst in practice at the Bar, Rosemary Jackson specialised in the field of construction, engineering, energy, professional negligence and commercial/contract law, including advice and advocacy in relation to litigation and arbitration, adjudication and mediation, and contract drafting. She appeared as an advocate in Courts at all levels and before a wide range of adjudicators and arbitrators, as well as in appeals or challenges against arbitration decisions. She represented local authorities, the Treasury Solicitor, contractors, sub-contractors, developers, property owners and purchasers, and professionals, including architects, engineers and surveyors. She gained considerable experience of advisory work and litigation arising out of party wall matters. As well as successfully representing many clients in arbitrations and adjudications, Rosemary has acted as an arbitrator and adjudicator. Rosemary was consistently ranked in Legal Experts, Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners for Construction Law for her practice as a barrister, as she is now for her practice as a Mediator.

Qualified 1981; Middle Temple; CEDR-accredited and registered mediator; recorder and QC 2006; full time mediator, conciliator, adjudicator and arbitrator 2014.

King’s College, London (1980 AKC; LLB Hons).