Have your say as a user of mediation services. The CEDR Mediation Audit for 2016 has just been launched with separate questionnaires for mediators and for lawyers who represent parties …
Practitioners are taught that there are certain things that are part of the mediation process, one of which is the exchange of position statements. There is however no legal or …
If you do not mediate in a case in which you are involved as a result of your previous solicitor’s negligence, can this be treated as a failure to mitigate? …
Parties to major building projects have openly discussed the effectiveness of signing up in advance to their own agreed form of alternative dispute resolution, rather than relying on adjudication or …
It now appears to be accepted by the vast majority of professionals that mediation is a cheap, quick and effective way to settle disputes. I have long held the view …
The overall aim of a mediation is to reach a settlement. The strategy that the mediator will use will depend on whether he or she is an ‘evaluative’ mediator or …
The judge in this latest case (Bradley v Heslin) started off the judgment with the following words: “Rather to my surprise I find myself trying a case about a pair …
Costs are often a serious obstacle to settlement, even where everything else can be agreed. This is frequently because parties mediate so late in the day and get bogged down …
The Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), in June, published its Sixth biannual audit of the mediation profession and the lawyers that instruct them. The market It is estimated that …
There comes a point in some mediations when the parties start to despair of ever reaching a settlement. This is often when sugar levels start to drop in the afternoon. …