Due Process

Commercial Mediation, Confidentiality, Developing the Field, Due Process, Efficiency, General, Humorous Pieces, Impasse, mediation as a career, Mediation Lawyering, Mediation Practice, Uncategorized, War Stories

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Well, 143,000 if you believe Mr. Google –  but only one could have posted this must view for all mediators and mediation advocates. See this world class mediator in action at;  http://billwoodmediation.com/video (and be sure to watch videos 2 & 3) P.S Bill if you need help here is one of the world’s only pet mediators,…

Accreditation, Appointment of Mediators, Arbitration, Clients, Developing the Field, Due Process, Ethics, Europe, General, Governments/Public Sector, harmonisation of mediation law, Mediation Agreement, Mediation Institutions and Rules, Mediation Practice, Mediators’ Conduct, Regulation, Responsibility of States, Standards, Success in mediation, Training

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Quality standards for the mediator? What conditions are needed for the successful outcome of a mediation? Without parties’ commitment to really resolve the conflict and settle the case, no success is possible. So commitment of the parties is a sine qua non. Still, we must also look at the mediator, who may be essential for…

Clients, Commercial Mediation, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Due Process, Efficiency, Ethics, General, International Mediation, Mediation Outcomes, Mediation Users/Clients, Mediators’ Conduct, Settlement Agreements, Uncategorized, War Stories

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Yep, it’s been an up-and-down month.  More down than up if I’m honest. But hey! I’ve done enough of these things to know that my old Dad was right all those years ago when we’d stand at the top of a black run and he’d say “Laddie, if you’re not falling down, you aren’t skiing…

Clients, Due Process, Mediation Practice, Mediators’ Conduct

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1. Failing to get the right people at the table. 2. Failing to explain the mediator’s role as agent of reality. 3. Permitting settlement negotiations to begin prematurely – prior to permitting the parties to vent or prior to risk analysis and reality testing. 4. Failing to orchestrate the negotiations by discouraging out of the…

ADR, Commercial Mediation, Due Process, Efficiency, Mediation Practice, Practical Challenges for Mediators

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We are in the midst of the Rugby World Cup 2011 down here in New Zealand – which may not mean much to those nations not playing the ‘great game’ but the tournament is the 3rd largest global sporting event after the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics so you can only imagine the impact…

Due Process, General, Humorous Pieces, Mediation Practice, Practical Challenges for Mediators

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In my previous life as a blogger, I wrote about things that jumped up and hit me that day, that week, that month – so it is that I report here in my very first post at this most promising blog, that I was not so much hit but lynched when training aspiring mediators here…