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October 29, 2020
Finally it’s today and the first Hunt ADR training event is on! We've been stopped by the 'Beast from the East' and we were stopped by trainer illness, but, at last, we find ourselves going live! Why did I choose Intellectual Property (IP) and GDPR? Well first of...
It’s the Brits tonight! This reminds me of a few ADR related stories I have to do with the music industry. This is not related to my blog “Applying Mediator Skills Where There is no Dispute” which included an extensive (mainly Indie) playlist. The Musicians’...
I was driving along the lovely North West Lancashire roads around Lancaster earlier this week when my phone rang. I answered, using hands free of course, and it was a young gentleman with a Manchester accent informing me of his company’s wish to contract with me to...
Being a lawyer and an academic who has just moved to Luxembourg to continue my research in the field of mediation, I now have an amazing opportunity to … talk to people. Or, to be more precise, I can spend time talking to other academics and lawyers doing their...
Hunt ADR today became accredited by the Civil Mediation Council (CMC) to provide civil and commercial mediation and CPD courses. Training will be provided in association with Clerksroom. The move is seen as ambitious in the already crowded marketplace for mediator...
My two most recent mediations were very different but both followed the same format which for me was unusual. The first case dealt with the end of a commercial contract and the second with the end of a marriage. In each case I kept the parties together throughout. The...
Our Guest Blog this week comes from Founder & CEO of Resolver, James Walker. Resolver is the free tool to help consumers raise and resolve issues. Its goal is to help make complaining quick and straightforward. Resolver is independent, free and focused on...
've been living just outside the law for three decades now. Maybe I should qualify that statement. What I mean is that since 1995 I have spent my working life in the field of ADR - persuading clients to use an arbitrator, mediator or adjudicator to resolve...
It was a great honour to be asked to speak at The European Law Institute Annual Conference last week in Vienna, Austria. My talk centered around the Second Consultation Paper published by the ELI on "The Relationship between Formal and Informal Justice: the Courts and...
My latest guest blog comes from Executive Chairman at Pengaron Mediation Services Ltd, Dave Owen. Dave is well known to most in the mediation community, and in this blog he outlines several cases that reached court where mediation would surely have been a...
Warning: Back to the Future is my favourite film of all time. This blog contains numerous nerdy references to Back to the Future. I recently spent a number of weeks as a support trainer for ADR-ODR International, under the expert guidance of Pamela Whitehead. As is...
Kevin Keegan. Liverpool and Newcastle legend. European Footballer of the Year. England Manager. Hilarious football pundit. Famed interviewee. Green Cross Code Man. Singer. Mighty Mouse. King Kev. What a man. I met him in Blackburn during the 1994-1995...