Jul 14, 2025
💼 From Car Boot Fortune to Courtroom Battle: Why Mediation Matters in Family Inheritance Disputes The unfolding courtroom drama surrounding the £43 million estate of car boot magnate Richard Scott highlights the devastating personal and financial cost of inheritance...
Jul 5, 2025
Why the Harder Road Often Leads to Greater Rewards This weekend I took part in the Delamere parkrun. But it wasn’t the usual forest trail. It was the challenging “B course” – a tougher 5K route that climbs Old Pale Hill not once, but twice. At around 176 metres above...
Jul 5, 2025
Jul 4, 2025
Refusal to Mediate and Part 36 Offers: Lessons from Chassy v Left Shift IT Ltd [2025] EWHC 1701 (KB) In a judgment handed down on 4 July 2025, Bruce Carr KC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) delivered a detailed ruling in the case of Chassy v Left Shift IT Ltd...
Jul 2, 2025
A Costly Inch: Why Boundary Disputes Cry Out for Mediation Imagine spending seven years locked in battle with your neighbour, not over fences or trees, but over a narrow, largely unusable strip of land barely wide enough to walk through. Now imagine that dispute...
Jun 24, 2025
Welcome to the New ProMediate Website – Your Trusted Partner in Civil & Commercial Mediation We are delighted to announce the launch of our brand-new website, dedicated exclusively to commercial and civil litigation mediation: a modern website designed to make it...
Jun 24, 2025
Refusal to Engage in ADR? Court Upholds £229,848 Interim Costs Order Despite Allegations In the recent High Court decision of Elphicke v Times Media Ltd [2025] EWHC 1554 (KB), Mr Justice Saini dismissed an appeal challenging a significant interim costs order of...
Jun 24, 2025
Refusing to Mediate: Court Reprimands Defendant in Appiah v Leeds City Council By Peter Causton | Civil & Commercial Mediator | June 2025 In a significant judgment handed down by the High Court on 19 June 2025 in Appiah & Anor v Leeds City Council & Anor...
Jun 24, 2025
In a recent High Court judgment, Mrs Justice Hill upheld a lower court’s decision refusing to grant a stay of proceedings for mediation in a defamation claim—highlighting the careful balance courts must strike between promoting ADR and ensuring litigation progresses...
Jun 19, 2025
