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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...
Do you have a dispute that needs addressing? Or is one brewing? Have you got to have a difficult conversation with a contractual counterpart? Our advice is not to wait; we believe that now is the time to have those conversations and here are our 5 reasons why:
Lockdown has got me thinking about fairness, or more accurately, unfairness. As a society we are – mostly – pulling together, accepting that Covid-19 isn’t fair but getting on with life anyway...
By now you will no doubt have received numerous e-publications extolling the benefits of working online or remotely. Given the current Covid-19 situation, the case for remote working has been made out and, of course, it applies equally to mediation – parties simply have no choice but to mediat...
Picture the scene. Two opposing parties come face to face at the beginning of a day of mediation. They’re stressed, anxious and feeling combative. Suddenly, their eyes spot a friendly-looking dog in the corner of the room and without thinking they both walk over and stroke it. Suddenly, they f...