The following survey by the American Bar Association was brought to my attention and it might be of interest to mediators interested in restorative justice.
Download survey
For more information visit ABA web site

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Deal mediation is one name for a vein of mediation practice that I have long enjoyed. The main benefit is that the parties co-design a deal that is the right deal with the right people. As a mediator you also guide the parties on how disputes might be dealt with in a way that minimises […]

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The Civil Mediation Council held its conference last week (8 May). A number of very interesting contributions were made by mediators, mediation providers, trainers and judges amongst others.
This speech was given by Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls. It is clearly given from his personal views and is, perhaps, all the more interesting for […]

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This coming Saturday 17 May 2008 the annual Playtex Moon Walk will take place in London to raise money for research into breast cancer.
Leading UK mediator David Miles and his wife Katie will be walking the full distance of 26 miles and in decorated bras! To sponsor them please click the link.
For more information about […]

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In an article I wrote for the CIArb International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management called The ‘Everywhen’ Mediator, I likened being a mediator to being a photographer.
Mediators and photographers are both “looking for the detail that makes the picture; looking for the point of balance which is a reconciliation between several elements; […]

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I have found the CPR events to be very good. They are attended by business users as well as mediators.Agenda  for conference.Conference Flyer  

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I found a really useful Q & A about using blogs and RSS feeds. This might be helpful for those who are not quite sure how this works. My thanks to Daniel Schwartz. RSS feeds and subscribing to blogs

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I have just arrived home (4am) from what should have been a ‘day to remember’. Well it is a day to remember but for all the wrong reasons…
I set out to catch my flight from * (I leave out the name for reasons that will become apparent below) to Heathrow after a very successful […]

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This link will take you to a video which features Prof Chris Guthrie giving the third annual Saltman Lecture, speaking about “Misjudging: Why Disputants Are Better Off in Consensual Processes than in Litigation”. His comments, and commentators’ responses, were published in the Nevada Law Journal’s Winter 2006/2007 issue.
Professor Guthrie is the Associate Dean for Academic […]

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When I first began scoping my research project I spent a long time thinking about why mediators might be ‘excellent’ and ‘effective’. My proposition was that mediators play to their strengths and a good proportion of those strengths were linked to personal attributes and behaviours.
Whilst conducting the research and testing the proposition I met Dr […]

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