A year and one month ago Sabine Walsh posted on this blog her report on the first Mediation Awareness Week in Ireland. The MAW has in fact a much longer history; for example, in Southern California…
A few months ago I painted a not-terribly-flattering picture of Scottish justice as experienced by small claimants - (Oiling the Wheels of the Justice System). Seen through the eyes of a mediator (…
The Olympics have come and gone with all of the emotion and inspiration they bring. In our recent, fully-subscribed, residential Summer School on mediation skills for leaders, we reflected on the…
This post will be the first of a series focusing on individual aspects of regulatory robustness, as introduced in previous blogs by Nadja Alexander and applied in the context of Ireland by the two of…
We first worked together in the competition law department of an international law firm. 14 years have since passed – at a spirited pace – and we now find ourselves, for an assortment of reasons and…
Yes, here it is. The final part of the Regulatory Robustness Rating (RRR) trilogy. For those of you who are just picking up the RRR topic for the first time, you might like to check out Part 1 and…
A week or so ago, on the train from Edinburgh to London, we were joined - across the table - by two women who got on at York. As is our wont, and probably theirs, we all offered brief greetings and…
What makes good mediation law?
For those of you who have been following the plot, you will recognise this as the second in a series of three posts introducing what is now called the RRR --…
I practice, teach and preach mediation for the past fifteen years and whenever I would introduce myself as a mediator the vast majority of people would still have confusions, if not difficulties, in…
I have in previous entries (July 2012, July 2013 and November 2015) written about a peer mediation initiative called the Peacemakers' Conference. The purpose of the Peacemakers' Conference is to…
