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How to choose a mediator?
The International Mediation Institute recently did a survey of choices in house counsel make about mediation and arbitration. The results are on this link. www.IMImediation.org/imi-international-corporate-users-adr-survey-fullresults
Any matter can be mediated
Mr Justice Baker reaffirms the statement made by Thorpe LJ in Al Khatib v Masry [2004] EWCA Civ 1353 [2005] 1 FLR 381 at paragraph 17: “there is no case, however conflicted, which is not potentially open to successful mediation, even if mediation has not been...
The European Directive by Rebecca Attree
(1) THE IMPACT OF THE EU MEDIATION DIRECTIVE: A UNITED KINGDOM PERSPECTIVE (2) ESSENTIAL SKILLS OF MEDIATION FOR LAWYERS A PAPER PREPARED FOR THE LIBRALEX MEETING PERUGIA, ITALY 22ND OCTOBER 2011 and updated on 16 April 2013 REBECCA ATTREE M.A. (Cantab) ADRg...
Why not own your own dispute?
By deciding to mediate a dispute, you will be committing yourself to pay for a good professional mediator. Mediation involves owning your dispute, understanding your opponent’s interests and working out what you need to change in order to solve it. Taking ownership...
Shoot or mediate or mediate and shoot?
SHOOT TO KILL OR MEDIATE? A gunman WHO CANNOT HAVE BEEN HEARD IN MEDIATION opened fire at a Phoenix office complex on 30 January 2013, killing one person, wounding two others and setting off a manhunt. Police warned the public that the suspect was “armed and...
Family inheritance – don’t fall out too far
When there is only one cake and you wish to slice it for the maximum benefit for all concerned, try us for mediation. For example, when someone in the family dies and the family falls into disarray, mediation can enable resolution swiftly that patches up the...
“To attain knowledge we need to add things every day but to attain wisdom we need to subtract things every day.” Lao Tzu
The less a mediator does the better. What mediators do best is bring their compassionate safe presence to a dispute in order that the parties can do the work to sort it out for themselves. With waiting, listening, attention, silence and the occasional pertinent...
Families and Couples Mediation
There is government support for mediating the problems in a family to avoid costly divorce involving money issues and childrens’ contact orders. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/divorce/9776487/Divorcing-couples-should-try-mediation-before-using-courts.html
Met Police going more towards Restorative Justice?
In a survey, the metropolitan police are asking residents to complete a survey about what they think about their new policing methods. See and answer here? http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/about-us/consultations/community-remedy-consultation/
How mediators do it?
Mediators won’t do it for you or with you but they will help you do it for yourselves….. (Its Friday and we are snowed in)