Apr 26, 2018
Herbert Smith Freehills have published a useful guide to dispute resolution clauses: Dispute resolution clauses: Putting yourself in the best position by Litigation team All too often, dispute resolution clauses may be treated as part of the boilerplate: the usual...
Apr 24, 2018
In Williams v The Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy [2018] EWCA Civ 852 the Court of Appeal considered the issue of the personal injury protocol and fixed costs. It was held that CPR 44 has sufficient width to enable a court to order...
Apr 22, 2018
Mediation Services ProMediate offers two types of mediation services: Face to face, telephone and online mediation on a fixed fee basis for claims valued at over £10,000, generally to solicitors and litigants in person whose disputes are proceeding in Court. We also...
Apr 12, 2018
The Government is seeking views on consumer redress and ADR by 4 July. Consumers should be able to avoid ‘costly court hearings’ through better access to high quality alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services, a government consultation on moderinising...
Apr 6, 2018
Quicker way to resolve claim disputes launched online The new service, introduced by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS), can be used to start a claim against anyone in England and Wales, and provides a quicker, more user-friendly way to start an action in the...
Apr 5, 2018
Our chief mediator, Peter Causton, has been appointed to the Sport Resolutions Mediator panel. Sport Resolutions say that they are: “an independent, not-for-profit, dispute resolution service for sport based in the United Kingdom. We were established by the main...
Mar 23, 2018
Peter Causton can now act as a barrister when mediating as long as this is clear to the parties. ...
Mar 19, 2018
Hard on the heels of the case we previously reported on is another case concerning a disappointed student. A solicitor who failed to convince a court that poor teaching at the University of Oxford cost him a successful legal career has been ordered to pay up to...
Mar 16, 2018
Whenever a dispute arises and it looks like court proceedings might be on the horizon, the best advice that a legal adviser can give to a party or potential party is, almost always, to explore all alternative dispute resolution (ADR) options before going to court and...
Jan 31, 2018
Mediators have welcomed the commencement of the Mediation Act as of 1 January 2018. Sabine Walsh, president of the Mediators’ Institute of Ireland (MII), said 2018 promises to be “a significant year in the development and practice of mediation in Ireland as a result...
