Humorous Pieces

    As long ago as 1981, in the very first edition of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Roger Fisher and William Ury proposed the following novel negotiation method:   …

There is an Internet meme that goes "Somewhere, there is a 21 year old in a 50 year old's body going 'What the hell happened?'". I try not to think about age generally; and more specifically, my age…

‘Tis the season to be merry. And indulgent. ‘Tis also the season when favourite songs are compiled by well-meaning souls into apparently themed collections. In the UK, we have a long-running radio…

To the extent that a mediator’s job involves listening to people complain and engage in negative behaviour, mediators face a serious mental health hazard. Research shows that listening to ongoing…

Not that the ADR is a boring milieu, but given the time of the year and the number of official and unofficial holidays the dispute resolution practitioners are taking right now, I have decided to…

  I like mediating. I also like running marathons. What this says about my sanity is a question for another day, but the more I do both the more similarities I identify between the two disciplines. A…

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…

Global Legal Post recently carried an article intriguingly entitled “Lawyers find Eureka moments in the shower". Sadly the article itself lacked the slightly salacious promise of its title. …

Hong Kong mediator, lawyer and poet, TK Iu, was introduced to readers by fellow blogger Joel Lee earlier this year. TK's first published poetic piece on mediation was entitled, 'A Mediator's Prayer',…