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…
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that mediation is confidential. Go on any training course, listen to any mediator's opening speech, and the secrecy/privacy of the…
As I open each mediation session I remind everyone that the mediation is “confidential”, “without prejudice”, “off the record”. I acknowledged that these three concepts don’t mean precisely the same…
