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In February, IPOS Mediation turned the spotlight on Rebecca Attree “An exceptional mediator"- (Legal 500 2023) Rebecca is a highly effective and experienced mediator of commercial disputes both domestically and internationally. She has over 35 years’ experience in assisting global businesse...
“Stress: it’s more common than you think…” That is the quote I noted during a sensitive, brave and informative seminar on Mediation and Mental Health run by Marie Coombes for IPOS mediators recently. The quote worried me(!): nearly everyone I meet is stressed, both in my mediation practi...
Mediation is a legal success story. Its use has become widespread, particularly in Common Law jurisdictions, but increasingly in countries using Civil Law. While there are of course variations from country to country and in different fields of law, the private mediation model is now very familiar.
What is the big idea about mediation? I think the current narrative of it is cheaper than going to court and is quicker and preserves relationships which a court can’t do; and mediation can come up with a range of settlement options and is confidential which a court isn’t - is now well out o...
"In short she is a credit to her profession, to IPOS and to herself." Rebecca has been mediating full time with IPOS for 7 years, and is described as a calm and authoritative presence at mediations, with the ability to deftly handle sensitive conversations with grace and empathy whilst not bein...
“Finally!” is the reaction in the UK mediation community. For UK dispute resolution lawyers and mediators, this announcement is long awaited as the Singapore Convention was first opened for signature back in 2019. This is an important step in the UK firming up its position as a major mediati...
Don’t get me wrong - it’s hugely encouraging to witness the steady increase in the use of mediation across the justice system in recent years. Vast amounts of money saved, parties freed quickly from litigation that is wrecking their businesses, lives and livelihoods, and better outcomes del...
This old chestnut came back to haunt me recently in a complex multi-party mediation of an inheritance dispute. We mediators know all too well that inheritance disputes are some of the most difficult cases to mediate. They are intensely personal. Joint sessions are almost always impossible. When...
On 16th November 2022,IPOS mediators, Rebecca Attree, Charles Gordon and Henrietta Jackson-Stops held an event in the Cayman Islands at Cayman International Mediation and Arbitration Centre (CI-MAC).
Mediation is all about calling a truce and stepping off the conveyor belt of litigation. It is also about humanising rather than demonising the people involved because the litigation process is by it’s nature both dehumanising and demonising. On Christmas Day, 1914, in the first year of Wor...
Insightful discussion on mediation with Rebecca Attree, Mediator, IPOS Mediation and Joanna Gosling, Presenter/Journalist at BBC News and Mediator.
Sometimes the parties come to a mediation determined to settle their differences, prepared to make significant compromises to achieve that objective and ready to move on with their lives. Those cases typically settle. In family business disputes, while the desire to achieve a settlement is usual...