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First of all a very happy New Year to all our readers! May 2016 bring you peace, happiness and many, many hours of successful mediation. Here in Ireland, all we would really like is for it to stop raining, even for an hour or two. With the last month having been the wettest on record,…

Family Mediation, General, Humorous Pieces, Ireland, mediation as a career, Mediation Practice, Sport, Stories

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I like mediating. I also like running marathons. What this says about my sanity is a question for another day, but the more I do both the more similarities I identify between the two disciplines. A recent week of particularly arduous mediation brought these similarities to mind more than usual. Preparation, of course, is the…

Clients, Fear, Ireland, mediation as a career, Mediation Practice, Stories, Success in mediation

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Ireland is changing. It is changing at a pace that few would have anticipated. Recent weeks have seen the latest step in the process of building peace and reconciliation between Ireland and the UK with Prince Charles making a meaningful and moving visit to Mullaghmore, County Sligo, the site of the IRA bombing which took…

ADR, Ireland, Lawyers, mediation as a career, Mediation Practice, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Negotiation

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Within this blog, we would like to familiarise you with the procedure of drafting and creating a complex mediation curriculum both from the inside and outside. Martin Svatos is one of the founders of this curriculum at the Charles University in Prague, and Sabine Walsh has accepted the invitation to give the final speech within…

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I was all set to write about climate change and, more particularly, to reflect on some excellent writing on that subject which addresses so-called climate change sceptics or deniers. It seems to me that there is much to be learned about the motivations and psychology which affect such people and which can easily be read…

Developing the Field, Future of mediation, Ireland, Lawyers, Legislation, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Mediation Schemes (In Courts, etc.), Regulation

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A couple of years ago in January I wrote a post on likely developments in Ireland in the New Year which, if I recall correctly, had the expression “High Hopes” in the title. Those hopes related primarily to the publication of a new, comprehensive piece of legislation on mediation and the impact it might have…

Developing the Field, Family Mediation, Future of mediation, Ireland, Mediation Practice

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“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” (Nelson Mandela) The inspiration for this piece has come from a two very different sources. First the extraordinary event that was the World Conflict Resolution Day conference in Stafford in October which focused on children and…

Arbitration, Bias, Community Mediation, Dispute Resolution, Due Process, Evaluative Mediation, Governments/Public Sector, Ireland

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At the risk of being accused of being too much of a purist, I just have to have a little grumble about the latest misappropriation of the term mediation. All involved in promoting and encouraging the use of mediation know how one of the largest barriers to people availing of this process is the lack…

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The last few weeks have seen a failure to apologise result in a political crisis, a senior police official being forced to resign, and our Minister for Justice’s already wobbly pedestal threaten to give way entirely beneath him. The coming weeks and months will tell whether the “Minister for Borrowed Time” as he has become…

Court Procedure and Litigation, Developing the Field, Domestic Courts, Family Mediation, Future of mediation, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Ireland, Legislation, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Mediation Schemes (In Courts, etc.), Reform

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Despite half the country being under water, the first few weeks of 2014 have brought with them some new developments in mediation and related areas. While not all of these developments are welcome, one gets a sense that the need for change in many areas, including the legal system, is being acknowledged and acted upon…