This post, ‘Why Mediate in Personal Injury Cases‘, was first published in the November 2017 edition of Collaborate, Issue No 106, the In-House Journal of the Scottish Mediation Network. It explains how mediation can really help assist in the resolution of Personal Injury claims – to the benefit of all participants. I practised as a
Recently I wrote a Legal Masters (LLM) dissertation about mediation between parents, children and young persons on the one hand, and local education authorities (LEAs) in Scotland on the other. It is entitled ‘How is Mediation Conducted in the Shadow of the Law? Additional Support Needs Mediation in Scotland’ and you can read it in
Some Difficulties with the Concepts of Neutrality and Impartiality in Employment Mediation: Contrasted with an Ongoing Need(?) for Informed Consent to make it Fair. Posted by Paul Kirkwood, director of www.MNCRS.co.uk – Mediation, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Services. Neutral: ‘taking neither side in dispute or difference of opinions; indifferent, impartial’. Impartial: ‘not partial, unprejudiced, fair’ [1]
This blog post observes that most of us react to external stimuli reflexively and instinctively. As a result, we often misperceive, exacerbating conflict. The task for mediators in defusing conflict, is to help people engage reflectively, using their cognitive skills, not their ‘fight or flight’ responses. In considering insights from neuroscience into understanding human conflict,