Northwest Mediation
Commercial & Family Mediation and Individual Dispute Resolution

After the excitement of last week’s National Mediation Competition (well done to the winners from the West of England University by the...

It was a pleasure to be invited to and take part in judging the National Mediation Competition last weekend at the University of Law run...

I have the distinct honour and pleasure of being one of the judges in the National Mediation Competition being run at the University of...

Mediation can deal with unwelcome guests or overstaying tenants so it’s no surprise that Ecuador’s foreign minister, Maria Fernanda...

We previously reported on the Irish government’s Mediation Act, as of the new year this came into effect. President of the Mediators’...

Northwest Mediation carries out most mediations using the shuttle or caucus method. This means we use three rooms. When we initially...

In a throw back to the Christmas day ceasefire of the trenches of word war one of 1914 two warring tribes of Sikir in Enga province of...

It shouldn’t come as a massive shock to anyone that those with a vested interest in making sure cases run as long as possible have...

We revisit two previous mediations in this week’s news blog. The ongoing strike in Oakland California by SEIU Local 1021 workers (who...

All mediations are important to those involved, most of the mediations Northwest Mediation deals with don’t actually involve life...

I attended the Civil Mediation Council’s Annual General Meeting this week, and learned some interesting that although the membership of...

A fantastic day was had by everyone who attended my mediation workshop last Wednesday, well that’s what the delegates tell me and who am...

Notorious wannabe mediator US president Donald Trump has once again offered his mediation services in the South China Sea Dispute,...

I’ve talked previously about property mediation and how it can save parties thousands of pounds and this week I came across a case from...

Now I’m not suggesting that all mediators end every mediation with peace and harmony where once there had been strife, but the key aim is...

In last week’s blog I made an error in use of a particular cliché, transposing the word “holes” for “holds”. An error I’ve been making...

I didn't know whether to start with a quote from Babylon 5 “and so it begins” or from the terrible Star Wars episode 1 the Phantom Menace...

From the Rohingya crisis to the events in Madrid following the Catalonian vote it’s nearly impossible to avoid media mention of mediation...

As the news broke of the results of Catalonian vote it was apparent to me that someone was going to use the M word sooner or later....

Great news for Nigerian mediator Zannah Mustapha this week. He has been awarded the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees Nansen Refugee...