Ruby is a Solicitor, Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator, Charity Worker and Ethics Specialist.

Ruby is a Solicitor, Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator, Charity Worker and Ethics Specialist.

Until Mid-2013 Ruby was a Partner at an International Law Firm specialising in International Law and Public Policy. She left to run her own consultancy advising on Business and Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability Law.

Having undertaken training as a mediator she quickly saw the synergy between this form of ADR and her other areas of work. Ruby was involved in the Law Society research into Business Human Rights for the Legal Profession and initiated the Business Ethics Working Group in her role as Vice Chair of the Solicitor’s International Human Rights Group.

She trained accredited and completed in 2011 with the London School of Mediation. Ruby has taught, trained and assessed mediations as well as mediated / co-mediated commercial disputes. She was also tasked by the trustees to carry out research into the Free Mediation Project and completed a report which the trustees approved after which the Free Mediation Project was initiated and thereafter Keith Ealey took the reins and did a great job.

Ruby initiated work with the Sheffield Hallum Law Faculty and the Helena Kennedy Institute for the training of mediation to law students at an early stage and has a successful collaboration to continue to work with universities on this. Ruby has over 8 years experience as a mediator.

Ruby is an ethical vegan and spends much of her free time on charity work in Eritrea and on animal rights related issues.

She is an integral part of the Free Mediation Project, a trustee of SoM and a director of RS Collaboration.