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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
When did you last complain? How do you feel when someone complains about you or your business? Under the ADR Directive, even Basil Fawlty would have to sign post to a certified ADR Provider. What can you do to avoid getting that far? We all know how we should respond...
There is still time to respond to the Legal Onbudsman’s consultation about certification as an ADR Provider under the directive and the plan to allow indefinite complaints about lawyers (subject to discretion over stale complaints). In the meantime, the new...
Today is my day off and where better to spend it than at the RIAD legal expenses conference in Brussels looking at the issue of online dispute resolution? Ok, many people will think that I have finally lost the plot but actually legal expenses insurers have...
I always wondered how LinkedIn could make money, but now I know, although it is probably not quite what the owners were thinking of….Congratulations to those canny US class action lawyers who have made claims on behalf of LinkedIn users who sent invitations to...
Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative party conference, in the context of a debate regarding legal costs, former City solicitor and recently elected Conservative MP Alberto Costa said some of his ex-colleagues are still not doing enough to encourage and...
