Northwest Mediation
Commercial & Family Mediation and Individual Dispute Resolution

We’ve reported previously on the church’s involvement in mediations (whether it’s been the Pope or the bishop of Coventry) now Justin...

I had the benefit of seeing the consequences of parties’ decisions to mediate (or not) this week. On one hand in an employment dispute...

As reported in last week’s blog and the Times Law Brief the pilot mediation scheme at Manchester County Court for all civil claims...

The Mediation pilot scheme at Manchester County Court goes live on Friday 1/9/17. The scheme, headed by Deputy District Judge Peter...

While learning to surf in Cornwall this week I received the good news that my application to join the CMC has been accepted. This comes...

Mediation, as one of my kids told me, is like a Venn diagram. If you don’t remember what a Venn diagram is, it looks like two (or more)...

Examples of the variety of claims in which mediation is able to assist comes in the form of two stories this week. First in Jackson...

Marietta (Washington County Ohio) as a city has an obligation to upgrade its wastewater treatment plant and increase the capacity of the...

Great news from Ireland this week, with the Dáil’s approval of the mediation bill which has been broadly welcomed by mediators and in...

Until the UK leaves the EU at some point in the next two years (or possibly longer) we are still bound by judgments from the Court of...

Parents of children in the Israeli Hadassah Medical Centre refused to take part in a mediation suggested by the Supreme Court, so rather...

On BBC Radio 4's Law in Action this week the new Lord Chancellor David Lidington has confirmed that all forms of alterative dispute...

Over to Ireland for this blog where Mr Justice Brian McGovern is hearing the ongoing and bitter battle between mother and son over the...

You can’t help thinking that following the surprise election results they’ll be an awful lot of mediation going on in Downing Street, but...

Following the isolation of Qatar by some of its neighbours (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Yemen, Libya's eastern-based government and...

One of the benefits of mediation is its confidential nature so no surprise that it comes into play (pun intended) in sport. Gerard...

Mediation continues to be the first port of call for (even!) law firms in the US. Over in Buffalo partners at the Cellino and Barnes...

Mediation in the sporting world this week, the Australian Cricket Players’ union (the ACA) has asked that Cricket Australia (the...

Developments in a couple of mediation stories we’ve previously followed. Firstly on this side of the pond the continuing mediation over...

I know not everyone listens to the tales of every day country folk on radio 4 but it's good to hear that not only is their farming...