Peter Cresswell has over 40 years experience of dispute resolution as barrister, QC, Chairman of the Bar and judge. He was responsible (as judge in charge of the Commercial Court in 1993/4) for the first and pioneering Practice Direction which encouraged litigants to consider mediation as an alternative to litigation. He was judge in charge of the Lloyd?s Litigation (the largest piece of civil litigation in the UK). He retired in 2008 and has acted as mediator in over 125 mediations.