Developing the Field

ADR, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Domestic Courts, Future of mediation, Judges as mediators, Mediation Schemes (In Courts, etc.), Singapore

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I’d like to spend this month’s blog entry providing an update on a Singapore development. On the 4 March 2015, there was the launch of the State Courts Centre for Dispute Resolution by the Chief Justice of Singapore, Mr. Sundaresh Menon. At the same time, Thomson Reuters also launched their book “Mediation in Singapore: A…

Causes of Conflict, Conflict, Developing the Field, Instinct, mediation as a career, Mediation Practice, Practical Challenges for Mediators, Scotland, Skills, Tips, Uncategorized, Understanding mediation

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(This is the final part of a keynote address to the YMCA Conference “From Reactions to Relations” in Burton on Trent on 20 November 2014.) Having considered what we can’t help noticing about our clients and about conflict I now turn to the tricky business of self-knowledge: what has our unique perspective at the heart…

ADR, ADR Clauses, Clients, Commercial Mediation, Confidentiality and Transparency, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Dispute Resolution Clause, Enforcement, Enforcement of a Mediation Clause, Enforcement of an ADR Clause, EU Directive on Mediation, EU Mediation Directive, Future of mediation, General, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), International Law, International Mediation, Jurisdiction, Lawyers, Legal Issues, Legal Practice, Legislation, Med-Arb Clauses, Mediation Act, Mediation Agreement, Mediation Lawyering, Mediation Practice, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Policy, Practical Challenges for Mediators, Reform, Regulation, Set Aside a Mediated Agreement, Settlement Agreements, Success in mediation, Trade, Understanding mediation

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As mediation seeks to claim a larger slice of the international dispute resolution pie, an increasingly important question for lawyers is: where and according to which law would I choose to have the mediation of my clients matter conducted? Say your client is a multinational corporation doing business with numerous organizations around the globe. Your…

Developing the Field, Efficiency, Mediation Practice, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Mediation Schemes (In Courts, etc.), Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Online Mediation, Reform, Technology

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In his 1956 text, The Queen’s Courts, Sir Peter Archer suggested that the development of the Courts was more organic than by design, and – though he doesn’t say as much – more pragmatic than principled. He calls on Topsy’s response to Ophelia in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to suggest that, like Topsy, they “just grow’d”….

ADR, Commercial Mediation, Cross-cultural, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), International Mediation, Mediation Practice, Negotiation, Training

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As the world of business develops at an unprecedented pace, we all are constantly facing new challenging situations which we must rapidly understand, find new solutions to and, in some cases, adapt ourselves to. A global net of co-operations, business opportunities, market resources and novel technologies has inevitable spanned across our world of business. Along…

Communication, Developing the Field, Mediation Practice

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“Instructions for living a life.  Pay attention.  Be astonished.  Tell about it.”  Mary Oliver, American poet “Everyone knows what attention is. It is the taking possession by the mind in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought…It implies withdrawal from some things in order…

Conflict, Developing the Field, Mediation Practice, Mediation Users/Clients, Tips, Uncategorized, Understanding mediation

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(This is the second of three parts of a keynote address to the YMCA Conference “From Reactions to Relations” in Burton on Trent on 20 November 2014) Last month I wrote in this blog about the fact that mediators “can’t help noticing” certain things as a result of the work that we do. We are…

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…

Business, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Efficiency, General, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Mediation Users/Clients, Particular Sectors (e.g. Construction, Banking, etc.), Success in mediation, Uncategorized

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Nowadays, more than ever, we live in a relationship-based environment, where networking, information and experience exchange form, among others, very important pillars of large and small organizations. These important concepts have been widely recognized by large corporations and successful small businesses but, unfortunately, there are still some skepticism from some small business segments, especially from…