Mediation Practice

A recent experience as co-mediator for the Italy China Business Mediation Centre  (a mediation centre jointly run by the Milan Chamber of Arbitration and CCPIT Mediation Centre) with a CCPIT (The…

“The last great act of a courageous leader is to let go,” I suggested to the CEO as he pondered whether this was in fact a good time to step down. He had many reasons not to leave. He attributed…

 Students make the best teachers. They don’t know what is not possible and so they take us to ideas and possibilities outside the frame. My students just gave me another great lesson. Arriving for…

In one of my recent cases, the question of impartiality appeared in quite an irregular way. It happened when I entered the mediation room where both parties were seated together with their lawyers…

Quite often, we hear mediators and mediation trainers using the fable of "Blind Men and an Elephant", which is a story about several blind persons describing an elephant differently out of their own…

Artificial Intelligence (AI), the notion that computerised systems can replace human thought processes and interactions, continues to gain traction in all areas of life including the legal profession…

On 25 July 2018, I was privileged to be part of a conference panel moderated by the inimitable Professor Nadja Alexander, CEO of the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy and my…

(This post is being republished because of technical problems when it was first published.) One of the key debates among mediators centres on the word 'evaluation'. I've written about this before -…

Bloomberg (not my usual reading fodder, I confess) carried an interesting piece a couple of months ago, entitled “Meet the Real Force Behind the Brexit Talks”. Yes, it was about Brexit (yawn) but it…