Joel Lee

I would like to spend this month's entry reporting on the recent developments in the Singapore Court of Appeal. The case of Surindar Singh s/o Jaswant Singh v Sita Jaswant Kaur [2014] SGCA 37 make a…

"Peace is not the absence of conflict. One must wage Peace as much as others wage war". I do not know from whom this quote originated or whether my unconscious has unwittingly amalgamated two…

I would like to use this month’s entry introduce readers to something referred to as “A Mediator’s Prayer”. It goes something like this. A Mediator’s Prayer Disputants, make me the instrument of your…

This post seeks to provide readers an update of a recent development in Singapore - the launch of the Primary Justice Project. While the Primary Justice Project does not relate specifically or solely…

Author's Note: For those readers who do not speak or read Chinese, the words and numbers in brackets indicate how to pronounce and intonate the Chinese characters indicated I was recently given the…

[Writer's note 1: In the spirit of whimsy that sets upon me during the lead up to Christmas, I wrote a letter to Santa Claus last year. This year, I received a reply from Santa that I would like to…

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Tan Pan [谈判 means "Negotiation" in mandarin] Symposium held in Hong Kong from 1-2 November 2013. This was organized by the International Institute for…

On 10 October 2013, Lord Woolf delivered the Singapore Mediation Lecture 2013 to a packed auditorium. The second lecture in this series, the Singapore Mediation Lecture is a result of a partnership…

I should state at the outset that I have a confession to make. Not quite yet but soon. As a long term practitioner and teacher of negotiation and mediation, it has occurred to me on many occasions…