Northwest Mediation
Commercial & Family Mediation and Individual Dispute Resolution

We start with another success for mediation with the story about the owner of Ice Hockey team the Carolina Hurricanes. Peter Karmanos was...

In short, no. The longer answer is that although generally when people think about mediation they think about it in terms of divorce...

In an action involving the proposed large scale mine in Bristol Bay (Alaska) brought by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the...

Eager readers of the blog will recall that we’ve seen the Vatican’s involvement in mediation within the Venezuelan government, well after...

In mediation news this week we go to Tanzania where Judge Teemba of the High Court of Tanzania presided over case in which the parties...

If you’ve ever wanted to see a simulated mediation (and you’re in Hawai'i) today is your big chance. After Mediation Awareness Week UK...

Weren’t you aware? With events from London to Edinburgh Mediation Awareness Week aims to encourage the use of mediation and expand the...

It’s the International Chamber of Commerce Commercial Mediation competition in Paris in February next year. As a qualified mediator with...

Once again this week we see mediation being adopted on an international scale. The most recent call for mediators (from the UN) to assist...

We’re in America again for the start of this week’s blog. Mediators from Pennsylvania’s state labour (labor) board have been requested to...

..and not for the best reasons. Mediators are just people too and whilst we all have thick skins and have to allow parties to “offload”...

By way of demonstrating the breadth of disputes that mediation can assist in, and with a title shamelessly stolen from Ian Drury) we...

Ok they aren’t actually babies but in Dundee this month over 100 young people (along with teachers and mediators) will come together to...

Everything we do in mediation is based upon the simple idea that what anyone says to the mediator is in confidence, without prejudice and...

Mediation news this week comes from Australia and America’s Mid-west. You may recall a previous blog in which I mentioned that Pankaj and...

If you're old enough to remember the above bastardised advertising campaign then you like me will have been around in the 70's and 80's...

Reports this week confirm that the Royal Bank of Scotland has agreed to mediate settlements with up to thirty-four thousand institutional...

Northwest Mediation hasn’t quite managed to get the Papal seal of approval just yet, but recent news does show how mediation is now...

Every mediation I’ve observed or conducted begins with doubts. Some parties are openly of the opinion that the other side won’t engage or...

Rights of way and access rights are often the cause of disputes between neighbours, and can be solved by alternative dispute...