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They say that you can take the girl out of Australia but that you can’t take Australia out of the girl. So as an Australian living in Hong Kong, let me leave the east-meets-west stories for another time and begin with the very Australian concept of BYO. It’s a long established tradition in Australia to…

Developing the Field, Family Mediation, General, Ireland, Lawyers, Lawyers and Psychologists, Legal Issues, Mediation Outcomes, Mediation Practice, Mediation Users/Clients, Practical Challenges for Mediators

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I recently met an acquaintance of mine whom I have not seen for some time. He asked what I am doing, job wise. I replied that I am now doing mediation full time. “Oh,” he replied “do you do legal mediation or family mediation?” I smiled wearily and launched into my usual explanation of what…

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…

Apologies, Mediation Practice, War Stories

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Plastered onto the rear fender of my next-door neighbor’s Honda is a bumper sticker that asks, “If you can’t change your mind, are you sure you still have one?” It’s a cheeky question perhaps, but nonetheless a relevant one. With an election year coming up in 2012, the American presidential campaign season is in full…

ADR, Legal Issues, Legal Practice, Legislation, Mediation Act, Mediation Practice, National Mediation Laws, Public Policy

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CNJ, the National Justice Council created on December 31st, 2004, and set up on June 14th, 2005 is an organization of the Brazilian Justice Department, with headquarters in the Federal District. It covers the whole national territory aiming at the coordination, administrative control and improvement of public services as far as Justice is concerned. Its…

General, Humorous Pieces, Mediation Practice

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I want to debunk two myths about mediation. One, it need not always involve a neutral third party and second, mediation should not just be an institutionalised service or enshrined within law and business school curriculum, it should be a way of life and the first thinking in everyday living; a philosophy that shapes everyone’s…

Accreditation, ADR, Availability of Mediators, Clients, Court Procedure and Litigation, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Ethics, EU Mediation Directive, Europe, General, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Lawyers, Legislation, Mediation Act, Mediation Practice, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Mediation Schemes (In Courts, etc.), National Mediation Laws, Not-for-Profit Organizations (NGO), Practical Challenges for Mediators, Public Policy, Reform, Regulation, Responsibility of States, Standards, Training

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As an effect of the Romanian Mediation Law and the EU Directive, for the past years, the mediation profession is growing exponentially in Romania. To date, seven or eight thousand mediators took the basic training and almost three thousand became authorized by the Romanian Mediation Council while the other five thousand were mainly interested in…

Cross-cultural, General, International Mediation, Mediation Practice, Mediation Users/Clients, Mediators’ Conduct, Practical Challenges for Mediators

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I just returned from (mostly) sunny Brisbane, Australia running a pilot program (5 to 6 September 2011) on intercultural mediation competencies for the International Mediation Institute before speaking at LEADR’s conference “kon gres” (7 to 9 September 2011). It was an honour to be training with Professor Hal Abramson (Touro Law School) and Ms. Gigi…

Developing the Field, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Hong Kong, Mediation Practice, Regulation

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The other day my friend and fellow mediator, Jill Howieson, was showing me pictures of gaps in buildings. Now, these are neither accidental gaps nor defects in buildings. Rather these gaps are very deliberate; they form an essential element of construction design. They are the famous architectural gaps of architect Carlo Scarpa. Scarpa was well-known…