Court Procedure and Litigation

11 January 2016 saw the opening of the Singapore Legal Year. As is tradition, the Chief Justice of Singapore, Mr. Sundaresh Menon delivered his address to the legal fraternity. In his address, there…

First of all a very happy New Year to all our readers! May 2016 bring you peace, happiness and many, many hours of successful mediation. Here in Ireland, all we would really like is for it to stop…

When someone asks me to explain what mediation is, I often find it easier to tell them what it is not. Sometimes I will start by asking them if they are familiar with litigation or arbitration, and…

In 2006 Frank Sander produced his 'Mediation Receptivity Index'(22 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, 599-618). The MRI would be a way of discerning the extent of 'mainstreaming' or …

  Regular readers of this blog will know that I am exercised by the question of justice in mediation. I test the concept on people I meet; responses range from "that's an interesting idea" to "it…

We have just reached the end of the annual marking season (grading for North Americans). The verbal joust of examinations is almost over. Students get their blows in first; teachers’ strike back…

It’s not always easy to spot trends. But one that I have noticed over the last year or two is an increase in the number of cases I am being asked to mediate in which litigation or arbitration…

  'Justice', an "all-party law reform and human rights organisation working to strengthen the justice system" launched a new report on April 23rd entitled 'DELIVERING JUSTICE IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY'…

In a previous post, I shared Professor Stacie Strong's call for blog readers to respond to her survey on international commercial mediation practice. Thank you to everyone you did. While the final…