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To mediate or not to mediate?
Mediation, Interim Relief, and Costs Discipline in Heavy Commercial Chancery Litigation: Lessons from Gable Insurance AG v Dewsall & Ors [2025] EWHC 3399 (Ch) The decision in [2025] EWHC 3399 (Ch) (Vos DJ, 23 December 2025) is formally a costs...
Where there’s a will
Mediation, Delay, and the Cost of Missed Opportunities: Lessons from Reid (Deceased) [2026] EWHC 53 (Ch) Probate disputes are uniquely combustible. They combine money, memory, grief, and family history—often long-buried resentments—into a single legal...
Why it’s wise to mediate
A recent case casts light on the Courts’ approach to penalising parties who do not respond to invitations to mediate. Proposing mediation (and replying properly): the costs lesson from Gable Insurance AG (in liquidation) v Dewsall & Ors [2025] EWHC 3399 (Ch)...