Brought up in a close-knit Staffordshire farming community, Oliver started his working life in the drawing office of an agricultural engineering firm. After several years in self-employment, he moved abroad to Greece for some 5 years where he worked in contract-farming and later ran his own business.

Returning to his native Staffordshire, Oliver pursued his interest in dispute resolution through law school, training and qualifying as a solicitor with a leading rural legal practice. After a spell in the commercial litigation department of a regional Legal 500 firm, he joined Nigel's team in early 2005 with a view to pursuing his interest in property, rural, and agricultural, dispute resolution. Oliver is a member of the Agricultural Law Association .

Oliver maintains that a robust approach, accompanied by a sensible view on settlement, is often the shrewdest and most economic formula for dispute resolution.

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