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Category Archives: ADR
ADR Group annual conference
I attended the ADR Group’s annual conference in Oxford which had the usual high standard of speakers looking at influence, hybrid mediation and trends in practice amongst other things.
What cases are suitable for mediation?
Nearly all types of dispute are suitable for mediation from commercial contracts to neighbour disputes. Some individual cases will be unsuitable because of the facts of the particular case and practitioners need to recognise which factors indicate against mediation.
What is ADR?
ADR means alternative dispute resolution and describes any conflict resolution procedure which does not involve a judge making a ruling following an adversarial trial hearing.
NYPD complaints mediation solution
NYPD complaints scheme encourages use of mediation
Mediator, what do you think?
One of the big debates in current mediation practice is whether or not mediators should be facilitative or evaluative. There seems to be a need to categorise mediators as one or t’other. An indicator of the latter is the willingness of a mediator to make mediator’s proposals with a view to breaking an impasse and…
“Monied might wearying out the right”
Alternative dispute resolution methods weren’t formally recognised but still existed when Charles Dickens wrote Bleak House in 1852/3. I’m sure the title referred to the Court of Chancery, not just the eponymous home of John Jarndyce. Dickens was uncomplimentary : Well may the court be dim, with wasting candles here and there; well may the…
