by Graham Perry | Apr 14, 2021 | Arbitration, Thought For The Day
COMMENT FOR THE DAY #56 ARBITRATION You can be an arbitrator or a party or the arbitration institution or an expert witness or just a witness. But you can also be an advocate – the person who presents the case + argues the case for one of the parties. If the...
by Graham Perry | Apr 13, 2021 | Mediation, Thought For The Day
COMMENT OF THE DAY #55 – EPISODE 2 MEDIATION The court wants you to mediate because many disputes do not need to go down the path of confrontation. Some are made for mediation + some will never mediate. But the court requires you, at least, to try to meditate....
by Graham Perry | Apr 12, 2021 | Arbitration, Thought For The Day
COMMENT OF THE DAY #54 ARBITRATION If being an arbitrator is your career, you will be mixing hearings with reading submissions +drafting awards/directions. In the course of a month, challenges arise that can throw you off course – a bereavement; an ailment; a...
by Graham Perry | Apr 10, 2021 | Mediation, Thought For The Day
COMMENT FOR THE DAY #53 MEDIATION Party A makes an offer in a mediation. Party B thinks the offer is “derisory” + an “insult”. Party B threatens to walk out of the mediation + inform the court that Party A did not engage in the mediation “in good faith” (i.e. in...
by Graham Perry | Apr 9, 2021 | Arbitration, Thought For The Day
COMMENT OF THE DAY #52 ARBITRATION This column has always stressed that arbitrators, + mediators, need stamina. You are doing a professional job. Be 100% professional from the moment you are appointed to the moment that the award is published. And it is so easy to...
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