Peter Causton

Solicitor

Peter Causton is a solicitor mediator, CEO of ProMediate (UK) Limited, a mediation service provider, and trustee and director of the Civil Mediation Council.

Solicitor

Peter Causton is a solicitor mediator, CEO of ProMediate (UK) Limited, a mediation service provider, and trustee and director of the Civil Mediation Council.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

New wine in old bottles or the nuclear deterrent? Peter Causton discusses mediation post Briggs & the Brexit vote

Peter Causton explores the future of alternative dispute resolution in insurance claims

Peter Causton examines the new mediation regime for handling complaints against lawyers

Peter Causton considers the use of ADR for consumer disputes

Peter Causton casts an eye over recent plans to modernise the Chancery Division

Peter Causton muses over the future of the litigation landscape

Peter Causton examines new types of claims in the modern world

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DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

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NLJ this week: DNA evidence—justice on ice?

In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match

NLJ this week: Fraud claims climb as courts brace for AI threats

Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes

NLJ this week: Pro bono power without the red tape

Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Trans pool player loses discrimination fight

Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Traders’ convictions quashed in Libor shock

The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement

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Peter Causton

MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan