After a long wait, Corporate Mediation is slowly becoming recognized as an important settlement tool outside the small circle of current practitioners and enthusiasts, reaching a widespread audience…
The Civil Justice system in Ontario is broken; badly broken.
Not a week goes by without another report decrying the sad state of affairs in our Courts. Consider the article from the most recent Law…
I should state at the outset that I have a confession to make. Not quite yet but soon.
As a long term practitioner and teacher of negotiation and mediation, it has occurred to me on many occasions…
From the Samoan Observer 28 August 2013
Chief Justice, His Honour Patu Tiava’asue Falefatu Sapolu yesterday launched Samoa’s Mediation Rules 2013 during a gathering at the Samoa Tourism Authority (…
From next Monday, 9th September, the brand new Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) (www.isi.gov.ie) will begin accepting applications for recourse to new debt resolution mechanisms which have been…
According to the National Council of Justice, there are close to 90 million lawsuits currently in course in Brazil. On average, it takes around 10 years for a lawsuit to reach closure after all…
While these mediations are commercial at heart, they beat with a cultural pulse and there is a sense of majesty as the Crown sits down to kōrero with Iwi ... gather around, for the history of the…
Sorry (as we Canadians tend to say a lot). I'm A few days late with this post as I've been vacationing in London U.K. with my wife and 14-year old daughter. (Wonderful time, thanks). Today is my…
"Conflict resolution governs. From international dialogues and problem-solving workshops to training programs, community mediations, and local restorative justice initiatives, conflict resolution (re…
This is the fourth and final posting in a series written by Tina Monberg, Irena Vanenkova, Michael Leathes and Nadja Alexander. In the last posting we discussed two factors that we think are critical…