Ercus Stewart, expert mediator and arbitrator
To help you to get to know more about our expert mediators we are running a Member Feature news item where we provide background information about a member.
Ercus Stewart is a Senior Counsel (Barrister) since 1982 and is a member of the Bars of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales, and Australia (New South Wales). In 2021 he became a Board member of the Irish Professional Mediators’ Organisation CLG, ‘IPMO’, and is Chair of the IPMO Civil & Commercial Committee.
He has been actively involved in alternative dispute resolution, both mediation and arbitration, for most of his professional career spanning almost 5 decades. He is an experienced mediator and arbitrator and brings extensive legal knowledge and expertise to his work as a mediator when dealing with Commercial and Civil disputes, including contract disputes, employment law and workplace disputes, and national and international commercial disputes, and is fluent in French.
He is a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and was chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Irish Branch c 1990/91.
Ercus has served as an Arbitrator in many international, and domestic, institutes – including, Court of Arbitration for Sport, Lausanne (CAS), ICC, Paris; IDRI, Nigeria. He is an Adjunct Professor of University College Dublin and an authority on arbitration law, lecturing on arbitration law for the Honourable Society of King’s Inns, DIT, UCD, TCD, and for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, and IDRI.
Ercus has also authored and co-authored several books over the years including: International Bar Association – Labour Law and Contracts of Employment (international); Arbitration Commentary and Sources, FirstLaw (2003) and Compensation on Dismissal FirstLaw (2007). He is on the editorial board of the Commercial Law Practitioner, Irish Law Reports monthly, the Irish Employment law Journal and the Irish Employment Law Reports.
Ercus is a Certified member of the IPMO which is the highest level of membership within the organisation denoting extensive experience and skill-sets as a mediator.
Contact: estewart@lawlibrary.ie Mobile 087 2550979.
