Well, the New Year is a time for reflections, making new resolutions and fresh starts. In Hong Kong the 1st of January 2013 saw a fresh start for the mediation regulatory regime with the coming into…
In June 2012 the Hong Kong Legislative Council passed the Mediation Ordinance (MO), the first piece of legislation on mediation in Hong Kong SAR. The MO was a much awaited and highly anticipated law…
It’s nice to be asked. It means that someone somewhere is taking notice of your work. Yes conference invitations are generally a good thing. They are a bit like buses though. You hang around for…
I come from a Western mediation tradition that argues strenuously for neutrality and impartiality in a mediator.
Indeed, one of the first questions lawyers will ask when hiring me is whether or not I…
Many have tried but all have failed to implement a definitive single enforcement mechanism for cross-border mediated settlement agreements.
This lack of any coherent method of enforcement is widely…
The recent decision in Gao Hai Yan & Anor v Keeneye Holdings Ltd & Others [2011] HKEC 514, (the “wining and dining” mediation case) has generated a considerable amount of interest in the…
Hong Kong is the global city of designer ‘labels’ as even the most reluctant of shoppers cannot fail to observe. It is also the city of fakes – fakes with labels and fakes without labels – and…
The other day my friend and fellow mediator, Jill Howieson, was showing me pictures of gaps in buildings. Now, these are neither accidental gaps nor defects in buildings. Rather these gaps are very…
