The extent of mediation’s use in the Court of Protection (CoP) is something of an unknown. A practitioner-led mediation scheme is currently being piloted, providing access to highly skilled mediators at legal aid rates and Dr Jaime Lindsey is currently carrying out the independent evaluation of it. The Office of the Public Guardian also recently carried […]
Online Mediation – The Mediator’s Perspective
The Coronavirus pandemic, the government imposed ‘lockdown’ and the extraordinary changes imposed on our everyday lives by social distancing measures that have come to symbolise 2020 have required a revolution in the justice system. The response of the justice system has been immense and the move to ‘remote hearings’ appears to be a culture shift […]
Advantages to Choosing to Mediate a Civil or Commercial Dispute Remotely
Members of GCM have been successfully mediating by telephone for some time. It has been considered a second-best option where costs and distance prevented the preferred option of a face to face, three room mediation in attractive rooms in Chambers. Dr Mary Malecka posts how over the past few months it has become apparent, that […]
Confidentiality – Seamless or a Thing of Shreds and Patches? By David Watkinson
Silence Glistens No More
David Watkinson considers the cost implications of not engaging with an invitation to mediate as decided by Mr Justice Griffiths in DSN v Blackpool Football Club [2020] EWCA 670 (QB) Introduction A number of blogs on this site have dealt with the costs consequences of failing to engage with mediation. The law has developed incrementally putting […]
Mediation – It’s real value
Lock down is challenging in many ways. For some it provides too much time to dwell on unresolved disputes which drain energy and take up headspace. Mediation has been and still is available online and may offer you the opportunity to explore a lasting resolution. Grasping the nettle of grievance is not diminished by the […]
JUSTICE – Solving Housing Disputes and Mediation
Mediation Values in Citizen-State Disputes
Family Mediation Council – survey results
The normalisation of mediation
The ‘Go to Mediation’ project produced a youtube of how a dispute between Santa and the Elves can escalate – and with mediation, resolve. Its context is seasonal, the message is straight-forward; mediation provides a quicker, cheaper and less stressful, confidential process compared with litigation at court.
