All of our mediators are fully trained and available to mediate in person or remotely.
In order to allow life to go on as near normal as possible, we are using a sophisticated video conferencing platform (Zoom) for remote mediations. Although our mediators would normally prefer to mediate face-to-face this is proving a very satisfactory alternative, without diminishing the chanc...
Dear All,
These days, I seem to be saying this a lot. Not out loud, but in my head. It seems nobody wants to have a conversation on the phone anymore. It’s all texts and emails. And, worryingly, this pervasive trend is seeping into the world of mediation.
Mediation in insolvency is on the increase. Not quite on the scale of say, the U.S. (for instance, hundreds of mediations arose out of Lehman Brothers Chapter 11 proceedings alone), but an increase nonetheless. And almost anything can be mediated, claims by trustees in bankruptcy seeking to ...
In our modern age of fluidity, one wonders whether the question – ‘Are you a facilitative or evaluative mediator?’ – is pertinent anymore. Must a mediator identify with one or the other? Can a mediator worth his salt not be both?
Of course this telephone call never happened. But what mediator wouldn’t have imagined themselves at such an extraordinary and unprecedented summit? The case would have been markedly different to the usual sort of family dispute our mediators deal with. In fact ‘dispute’ would have been to...
The History Of Technology In Mediation Services
In his second blog post Andrew explores how mediation can be used to stop issues becoming disputes and disputes becoming litigation.
because a different sort of personal relationship exists in a partnership or a family business
"What the mediation world needs, is mediation" - Rebecca Clark posts from the ALL Mediation Conference hosted by the Civil Mediation Conference on 23 May 2018.