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We all know that mediation is a serious business. However, whilst our celebrations to mark our 25th year in business are on hold, our mediators have been looking back on their most amusing experiences over the years. Here, for your enjoyment, is a compilation of the printable ones!
Lawrence Kershen QC considers the role that a restorative justice dialogue might play in providing resolution to environmental harm.
In an article published recently in Planning Magazine, Harry Spurr explores the use of mediation to resolve planning enforcement disputes during Covid 19.
Legend has it that King Arthur’s Round Table was built to keep his knights from claiming precedence over each other and to settle quarrels between them. I like to think there’s a bit of Camelot in the round table meeting at the start of mediation. This plenary, or joint, meeting offers the o...
Mediation users and mediators, have always set great store by the process of mediation by which individuals come together to have frank conversations, look into each other’s eyes, understand the emotional blockages and get to the bottom of the issues. So, now that lockdown has put this face-to...
‘What’s your day rate?’ is one of the most common questions litigators ask mediators. It makes perfect sense for many commercial disputes, especially where hot-housing a mediation into the one-day model seems like the most efficient way of getting your client the ‘Four S-es’: Settle, S...
I count myself a lucky man – I had the great pleasure to know and learn from the late David Richbell, one of IPOS Mediation’s best known mediators. David was among the brave few who led the first mediation revolution which championed mediation as an alternative to litigation. His experience ...
In these unusual times, new problems are developing apace in the business world. With the ‘stay at home’ lockdown preventing face-to-face discussions between retailer and supplier, bank and customer, employer and employee and so on, problems will quickly morph into disputes. And without care...
The extraordinary situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in many businesspeople reaching to their contracts. Is there a get out clause? If not, can you get out anyway?
Picture the scene. Two parties want to sort out an issue with a contract. We’re not talking a full-blown dispute but a situation where the opposing sides want to explore the next steps so they can maintain their working relationship and keep the project running. Enter a third party neutral to ...
Divorce and remarriage, DIY wills, rocketing property values and fallout from the Supreme Court’s 2017 judgement in
Listening to Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury on Radio 4's Today programme this morning made me sit up and pay attention. Here was an ex-President of the Supreme Court being interviewed about the possibility of an avalanche of claims coming about as a result of the pandemic crisis and advocating t...