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    Beyond the Formal Process: How Mediation Is Quietly Revolutionising Workplace Sexual Harassment Cases

    Leading workplace mediator Liz Rivers discusses how mediation is revolutionising workplace sexual harassment cases.

    11th July 2025
    Written by Liz Rivers
  • Blog

    Reflections on London International Disputes Week 2025

    IPOS Mediator and Partner, Henrietta Jackson-Stops, shares her thoughts following LIDW25, after her second and last year as Co-Chair.

    20th June 2025
    Written by Henrietta Jackson-Stops
  • Blog

    Reflections on 30 years of mediation

    IPOS Mediation was established 30 years ago – founder Mark Jackson-Stops looks back at three decades of mediation and some key learnings along the way.

    2nd May 2025
  • Blog

    Superdry and compulsory mediation: sometimes when you lead a horse to water…

    Harry Spurr, full-time mediator, explains the significance of the mediation case everyone’s currently talking about: Superdry – what is it and why is it important?

    2nd May 2025
    Written by Harry Spurr
  • Blog

    Celebrating 30 years of IPOS (happy birthday to us!)

    Three decades on, IPOS founder Mark Jackson-Stops reflects on why he pivoted to mediation and how he established a successful mediation practice.

    24th April 2025
  • Blog

    Settlement looking unlikely? It’s not over until it’s over!

    Parties not settling their dispute? Here’s what a mediator can do next to ‘close’ the deal or prime the parties for a later settlement.

    17th March 2025
    Written by Lawrence Kershen KC
  • Blog

    No deal? So what’s the point of mediation?

    Mediation without settlement – is there any point? Yes! Even without resolution, mediation can get parties to a better place.

    25th February 2025
    Written by Lawrence Kershen KC
  • Blog

    Is what you say in mediation really confidential?

    A recent case has once more brought to the forefront of people’s minds the extent to which what is said in a mediation can be used in evidence if the parties later fall out about the settlement agreement.

    29th January 2025
    Written by Beverley Vara
  • Blog

    How to Beat Bedlam in the Boardroom – Managing Boardroom and Shareholder Disputes

    Roger the chief executive of an IT company called me one day to ask for my help. “I have just received another email’ he said ‘It’s the third this week and I really don’t know what to do next!”

    9th December 2024
    Written by Jane Gunn
  • Blog

    Getting what you want - the psychology of negotiation

    One of the skills required of a mediator is getting parties to think carefully about how they negotiate. I start this process in my first calls with my clients - before the mediation day I always have a zoom call with each party to discuss the case and to get parties thinking about how they wil...

    30th October 2024
    Written by Henrietta Jackson-Stops
  • Blog

    Taking aid to Ukraine - 7th to 11th September 2024

    IPOS mediator, Mark Jackson-Stops, and his wife, Sue, were part of a team that drove to Ukraine from 7th - 13th September to deliver vehicles and medical and other aid directly to those at the front line who had requested it.

    27th September 2024
  • Blog

    The rise and fall of the Barclay family empire

    Open discussions about succession, good structuring and mediation could help a family business avoid going the same way as the Barclay's.

    24th July 2024
    Written by Arabella Murphy
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