Dispute Resolution

Clear judgement for complex or contested matters.

Wyldmark supports clients with dispute resolution across property, business and landlord & tenant matters.

The consultancy brings structure, evidence and measured judgement to difficult situations. Wyldmark offers the dispute resolution services needed to give parties the most appropriate means of achieving a workable outcome to a dispute or contested matter.

The right route through disagreement.

Disputes are not all the same. Some need light-touch intervention to help parties move forward. Others require a more formal process to achieve a binding decision.

Wyldmark helps clients approach these matters with clarity and purpose. The focus is on understanding the issue, the wider context and the people involved, before identifying the most practical route towards resolution.

This may involve facilitation, mediation, arbitration, expert evidence or a blend of these approaches.

Read the ground. Define the route. Move forward with confidence.

Dispute Resolution services

Wyldmark offers a range of dispute resolution services, from early-stage facilitation through to formal arbitration and expert witness work.

Each service is tailored to the nature of the matter or dispute, the position of the parties and the outcome that needs to be achieved.

  • Facilitation provides a light-touch, practical way to help parties understand an issue, challenge fixed positions and identify a workable route forward.

    It is well suited to situations where relationships matter, where the issue is difficult but not yet fully formalised, or where an independent third party can help unlock progress.

    Support can include:

    • reviewing the issue and wider context

    • understanding the parties involved

    • challenging established positions

    • helping define shared or separate outcomes

    • supporting a positive route towards change

    • providing ongoing input to keep agreed actions on track

    • supporting family, succession and business-related issues

  • Mediation is a more formal process than facilitation, but still one controlled by the parties.

    Wyldmark helps create the conditions for clear discussion, practical thinking and constructive challenge, supporting parties as they look beyond fixed positions and work towards resolution.

    Mediation is not a soft option. Used well, it can be a compelling route to resolution.


    Support can include:

    • structured mediation sessions

    • staged or phased mediation processes

    • helping parties look beyond the immediate issue

    • drawing on the wider relationship and commercial context

    • clarifying the discussion

    • challenging fixed assumptions

    • helping shape a practical settlement environment

    • blue sky thinking to positively seek out imaginative and deliverable solutions

  • Arbitration provides a route to a binding decision. It can be formal and heavily structured where needed, but it can also be shaped into a swift and focused process for resolving a whole dispute or unlocking a specific issue.

    Wyldmark offers arbitration support shaped around the matter, including flexible options where a fixed price or fixed timescale approach is appropriate.


    Support can include:

    • bespoke arbitration processes

    • fixed price and fixed timescale options

    • documents-only reviews

    • discrete issue determination

    • binding decisions where parties need certainty

    • procedures shaped around the needs of the dispute

    • a cost-effective alternative to often overloaded courts

  • Wyldmark provides expert evidence on residential development-related disputes, particularly where purchase price, land value, market context or development assumptions need to be assessed clearly.


    Support can include:

    • party-appointed expert evidence

    • jointly appointed expert evidence

    • court or tribunal-appointed expert reports

    • purchase price disputes

    • valuation-related development matters

    • market and site analysis

    • evidence-led opinion shaped by practical sector experience

A tailored approach to deal with difficult matters.

Wyldmark’s approach to dispute resolution is structured, practical and outcome focused.

The first step is to understand the issue clearly: the facts, the relationship between the parties, the contractual position and the wider context. From there, Wyldmark helps identify the most appropriate route, whether that requires informal facilitation, more structured mediation, or a binding outcome through arbitration or expert evidence.

The aim is always to bring clarity, to challenge convention and obstructive positions and to focus attention on the outcome that can realistically be achieved.

Understand the issue

Clarify the facts, context and relationships to appreciate the pressures on those involved.

Identify the route

Assess whether the matter needs facilitation, mediation, arbitration, expert evidence or another approach.

Apply judgement

Use experience, evidence and a positive mindset to overcome barriers and support clear decision-making.

Focus on the outcome

Keep the process directed towards progress, resolution and practical deliverability.