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ADR, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, mediation as a career, Partnering, Promoting Mediation, Reflective practise, Scotland

(Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London)/ /1 Comment

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” Pablo Picasso. Last month I travelled to Edinburgh for the International Academy of Mediators conference, chaired and hosted by John Sturrock. The theme of the conference was “Looking outward – mediation: a new enlightenment?” Not only was…

ADR, Decision making, Dispute Resolution, General, Governments/Public Sector, Intuition, Japan, Negotiation, Neuroscience, North Korea, peace negotiations, Singapore, United States

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Here in Singapore, along with the rest of the world, we await the Trump-Kim Summit scheduled for Tuesday 12 June. What can we expect? While we may have learned to expect the unexpected from these two leaders, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un, recent media reports have highlighted one apparently predictable feature of Trump’s negotiation approach….

ADR, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Europe, Future of mediation, Legislation, Mandatory mediation, Mediation Act, Regulation

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It cannot be suggested that mediation in Greece has been a success, yet. It cannot be said that it has been a failure either. The fact of the matter is that few cases have been to mediation to date in this country, hence in practice it is an unfamiliar process for citizens and companies. However,…

ADR, Clients, Commercial Mediation, Conflict, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, ICC Mediation Competition, Mediation Practice

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Life as a ‘pracademic’ is a wonderful experience. I have the pleasure of teaching intensive programs in ADR at postgraduate and undergraduate level and in between I work in my own practice as a mediator, facilitator and coach. A great life! My teaching life includes the privilege of training my university’s team for the ICC…

ADR, Developing the Field, General, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Lawyers, lawyers in mediation, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Practical Challenges for Mediators, Stages of mediation

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My guess is that most of my fellow authors on this blog, and probably a high proportion of readers, work in a mediation environment is which clients are represented by counsel. Indeed, if you track back over a number of entries in which matters of process are discussed, it seems typically assumed that counsel are…

ADR, Dispute Resolution, Domestic Courts, Mandatory mediation, National Mediation Laws, Promoting Mediation, Research, Surveys

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In Australia we have long experience of compulsory mediation prior to litigation in cases where a presumed power imbalance exists – such as retail tenancy and farm debt disputes. However, compulsory mediation by order of a court has been a controversial topic, particularly amongst judges, most of whom do not have actual mediation experience and…

ADR, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Negotiation

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While working on the manuscript for a book published last year (Negotiation: Things Corporate Counsel need to know but were not taught – Wolters Kluwer, 2017), I submitted a draft to an eclectic peer group from all around the world to gauge whether I was on the right track. The group comprised corporate counsel, business…

ADR, Cognitive Bias, Decision making, Dispute Resolution, Due Process, Ethics, Fear, Lawyers, Negotiation

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You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Al Capone This popular quote attributed to the famous US mobster announce the use of force and other dirty tricks in negotiation. I do not especially like it. I would relativise it by the following…

ADR, Arbitration, Commercial Mediation, cross-border mediation, Dispute Resolution, Enforcement, Future of mediation, harmonisation of mediation law, International Mediation, mediated settlement agreement, New York Convention, Promoting Mediation, UN and International Organizations, Uncategorized, UNCITRAL, UNCITRAL Model Law

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During its 68th session from 5 – 9 February in New York UNCITRAL Working Group II (Dispute Settlement) concluded its work on the preparation of an instrument or instruments on the enforcement of international commercial settlement agreements arising from mediation. In the mediation community we often refer to such settlements as (international) mediated settlement agreements…

ADR, memory, Memory and Illusions, Perception, Uncategorized

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During a trip to Vienna some time ago, I attended the “ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR Meeting” where I had the opportunity to hear Toby Landau QC, a brilliant barrister and arbitrator from London, speaking about “Unreliable Recollections, False Memories and Witness Testimony”. He explained that memories are changeable and that experiences from past…