Mediation Outcomes

A Case to Remember: A Voyage Charter Dispute   Maritime TradeIn 2024, I mediated 72 cases, but one stood out in particular—a voyage charter dispute involving the loss of cargo during severe weather…

  Mediation has long been used as a method of resolving disputes. Indeed, the practice of combining mediation and arbitration by the same neutral has been traced back to ancient Greece and Ptolemaic…

  There are usually numerous issues to be resolved in mediated commercial disputes, for example: whether a relationship should be continued or terminated and, on what basis; the terms upon which any…

    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:   …

                                                          In the beginning ... Back in the 1976 Pound Conference called “Proceedings of the National Conference on the Causes of Popular…

It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog just about mediation practice. Other things always seem more important! However, as I was mediating this week, a thought occurred to me about a rather…

  One of the great joys of being part of the world-wide mediation community is the  opportunity to learn and keep learning from professionals whose practice is far from homogeneous. The generosity in…

Kleros is a cryptocurrency dispute resolution platform. It uses crypto tokens and game theory to resolve real-world disputes. It follows an automated process with no discussion, no nuance, no probing…

A mediation ended without amicable agreement. The parties had reached that understanding only. It had taken several sessions over several weeks, with plenty of recrimination about the past that…