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UKRAINIAN REFUGEES – EPISODE 5 – SEXUAL SPANNER IN THE WORKS
MEDIATION #220 Things are not plain sailing but there is progress. On the plus side, there has been an impressive...
UKRAINIAN REFUGEES – EPISODE 4 SEIZING EMPTY PROPERTIES – LEGALLY
MEDIATION #218 So far, the two Mediators have had three meetings with each of the Three Groups – the Ukrainian...
UKRAINIAN REFUGEES – EPISODE 3 PROBLEMS MOUNT
MEDIATION #218 PROBLEMS MOUNT The Mediators, first, meet in three separate meetings with the 3 personal teams...
Mediation – Positions and Interests
You are mediating a dispute. You have asked the parties to set out their positions but things are not going well....
Can You Teach Discretion?
An interesting contradiction exists between the exercise of discretion on the one hand AND the need for Tribunal...
Unconscious Bias
Unconscious bias is a big issue. How do Mediators and Arbitrators deal with this problem? The difficulty is that the...
Standards Of Behaviour
Yesterday morning I wrote about dispute resolvers need for integrity and character. Today I focus on standards of...
I Want To Be A Dispute Resolver
There are not many people who, at a young age, inform their parents that “I want to be a Dispute Resolver when I grow...
ARBITRATORS AND A DUTY OF DISCLOSURE
Following the Supreme Court Judgment in Haliburton v Chubb there has been much discussion about an arbitrator’s duty...
FAMILY SEPARATION – TWO CHILDREN OR THREE?
A marriage has broken up. There are three children aged – 7, 4 and four months. There are assets but not large. The...
BIAS IN OPERATION DO YOU ACT OR DO YOU GO MUTE?
Bias in arbitration comes in many guises – sometimes it is apparent and sometimes it is unconscious and when it comes...
PARTIES THAT WONT PARTICIPATE
You have accepted an appointment as a mediator in a dispute between directors who have fallen out. There are three...