Oct 24, 2015
According to a report produced by the Small Business Research Centre at Kingston University for the Legal Services Board into the legal needs of small businesses: • Fewer than one in 10 firms employed in-house lawyers or had a retainer with an external provider; •...
Oct 20, 2015
We attended a talk chaired by the Hon Mrs Justice Carr DBE on 20 October 2015 on the well trodden subject of “Getting the Most From Your Mediator.” A good mediation joke was told – parties are mediating and the mediator says “what about an...
Oct 16, 2015
Peter Causton recently attended the annual conference of the International Association of Legal Expenses Insurers. This was interesting as Despina Spanou the Director for Consumer Policy at the EU Commission was there and spoke about the forthcoming EU Portal...
Oct 16, 2015
The legal world has been talking about orders made in divorce proceedings this week following two high profile judgments in the Supreme Court. The cases concerned Varsha Gohil and Alison Sharland. The Supreme Court held that their divorce settlement and Court order...
Oct 15, 2015
In this month’s edition of Harvard Business Review, there is an article about high emotion services in the context of cancer care, but with applicability in other areas. Mediation and ADR services fall into that category, as do services relating to major...
Oct 11, 2015
Been tempted by by the shiny new iPhone 6s? Although ProMediate has not been certified yet to deal with disputes relating to mobile phones, this is an area where we are experienced and clients often contact us about mobile phone contract disputes. One...
