An evaluation of the NHS Resolution Mediation Evaluation The publication of NHS Resolution’s evaluation of their mediation programme in February 2020 has shone a light into the opaque world of mediation and ADR. The lamp of data has illuminated the success of ADR, in this instance mediation, in a way never done before. In a […]
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The long march toward compulsory mediation In my article “ADR: the time has come” published by the Law Society’s Gazette on 7 November 2019 I summed up the changing environment for civil litigation with these words: “A restatement of the role and place of ADR in civil litigation within England and Wales is on its […]
What would you do if you were an administered arbitration scheme in search of an out-of-the-box internet solution to ensure your Neutrals and your Scheme are secure and compliant with data protection legislation? The options are self-build or endorse/list preferred providers. The self-build route has been undertaken recently by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm […]
The GDPR checklist for ADR Neutrals Arbitrators, Mediators, Evaluators, Adjudicators and the General Data Protection Regulation This article does not provide legal advice but a checklist of issues under the GDPR that every arbitrator, mediator, evaluator or adjudicator needs to ask him or herself every time an instruction is accepted. Our briefing provides a summary […]
More mediation, no bundles for SCCO but more money for Modernisation: something for everyone Once again this took place at the MoJ, 102 Petty France with, I reckon, 200+ delegates. Sidonie Kingsmill, HMCTS Customer Director, started proceedings with a summary of the three key objectives underpinning their Modernisation Programme and gave an explanation of current […]
The concerns expressed about Climate Change and the part carbon emission play is of importance to everyone and everyone can play a part in reducing emissions. This includes the ADR community. Arbitration leads to carbon emissions from flights taken by arbitrators and the parties with their teams of representatives to attend hearings. Video conferencing using […]
In arbitral proceedings under the law of England and Wales arbitrators and parties are subject to the Arbitration Act, 1996. Curiously there is no duty in that Act to assure confidentiality. Instead parties may provide for confidentiality in their arbitration agreements expressly, or may rely on the implied duty of confidentiality at Common Law: Ali […]
In 2018 the Law Gazette (house publication of the Law Society of England and Wales) organised a Round Table to discuss information technology in dispute resolution, chaired by Eduardo Reyes (Features Editor of the Law Gazette) and reported by Joanna Goodman the discussion considered the current state of LegalTech in dispute resolution. The article about […]
ADR which was for so long the Cinderella of civil litigation and to which so much lip service has been paid for so long is about to be established as the central feature of all civil litigation in England and Wales – if recent, Pan-like, initiatives by Government and Judiciary are to be believed. Already […]
A guest post by Tony Guise, director of DisputesEfiling.com Limited, a provider of online ADR platforms, and a past president of the London Solicitors Litigation Association Guise: Litigators can no longer work in silos A recent decision in the Court of Appeal concerning ADR is striking for a number of reasons, not least of which […]
Alternative Dispute Resolution In this podcast Tony Guise of Disputesefiling.com explains how the disputesefiling.com platform helps ADR schemes and providers flourish in a rapidly changing and growing market for their services.
CIArb Annual Mediation Symposium By the time this is published there will be just over 2 weeks before the 2019 CIArb Annual Mediation Symposium takes place in central London. This year’s event is as timely as ever and has the theme: “Mediation in Times of Crises”. Issues of crisis abound in the world from warring […]