Nov 20, 2015
At his annual press conference on 17 November 2015 the Lord Chief Justice was talking about the Court reforms and said that the reforms “will also enable us to provide in-court mediation in the process of deciding a case.” We can only assume that he was...
Nov 20, 2015
The Courts have to be flexible when it comes to “litigants in person” or as I prefer to call them: “litigants.” A new civil procedure rule CPR 3.1a) expressly enables the judge to take over questioning of witnesses, for example. It goes...
Nov 20, 2015
When is it acceptable for a mediator to help the parties draft a settlement agreement? This is an issue which occurs to us following the case of Minkin v Landsberg. In this case, the defendant solicitor was instructed to put into an acceptable form the terms of a...
Nov 19, 2015
In respect of many problems in the world at the moment, all roads seem to lead to Damascus. Meeting in Vienna the day after the Paris attacks, Russia, the United States and powers from Europe and the Middle East agreed on a two-year timeline leading to Syrian national...
Nov 19, 2015
Mediation is frequently used in workplace and employment disputes and there is an obligation to use ACAS in tribunal proceedings. It is no surprise then that it is reported that Jeremy Hunt is under pressure to mediate the junior doctors dispute before their series of...
