With court business still at a low ebb, there has never been a better time to consider mediation. Find out how online mediation works, where to access it and how you can try it out. Impact of COVID-19 on civil business First, the bad news. Ongoing Government restrictions mean that, for the foreseeable future, we’re
On 4 June 2020, early in the morning, I was asked by a long-standing fellow collaborator and mediator if I was available to co-mediate the following morning at 7:30 am on the Zoom Pro platform in an international commercial mediation including participants from the Antipodes as well as Scotland. I have used Zoom Pro conference
Not long before the world as we know it changed dramatically as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, I was instructed by a law firm to mediate a workplace dispute between two directors of a large company. Let’s call them Senior and Junior. The HR head decided it was too hot to handle internally, and
Submission by Paul Kirkwood, Law Society of Scotland Accredited Commercial Mediator and Litigation Solicitor, owner of Mediation, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Services (MNCRS) to the proposal by Margaret Mitchell MSP for a Mediation (Scotland) Bill; in which he suggests adopting the Mandatory Mediation (MM) Model practised in Ontario, Canada as the statutory way forward for
I have produced the attached video in conjunction with the Law Society of Scotland about these forthcoming events, click here for full programme (PDF) Pam and I have recorded a Webinar for the Law Society of Scotland in which we set out the theories that underpin modern commercial mediation and in which we set out