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Mediation Achiever of the Year 2018
Congratulations to my colleague Paul Balen who received the award for Mediation Achiever of the Year at the Personal Injury Awards in Manchester. Paul has been at the forefront of the NHS Resolution clinical negligence mediation scheme and has a phenomenal...
8 out of 10 claims settle in first year of Mediation Scheme
December saw the completion of the first year of our work as specialist independent mediators under the NHS Resolution Mediation Scheme for personal injury and clinical negligence claims. In the year we had almost 50 matters go through the scheme – 18...
Sir Henry Brooke
On behalf of all mediators at Trust Mediation, past and present, I would like to offer a few words of tribute to Sir Henry Brooke who, so sadly, passed away on 30 January. He was a great lawyer, an inspirational mediator, a great communicator and a wonderful man. Sir...
The new justice economy
The following article by our panel mediator Tim Wallis first appeared in the Solicitors Journal September 2017 and is published here with kind permission. Alternative dispute resolution, what used to be ‘the next thing’, has now become mainstream. However,...
Judge proposes mediation for serious medical treatment cases
Our panel mediator and specialist clinical negligence solicitor Andrew Hannamdiscusses the European Court of Human Rights Decision re: Charlie Gard This article was first published by LexisNexis What issues did this case raise? The domestic Courts and...
NHS Resolution
On April 1st the NHS Litigation Authority re-branded itself as NHS Resolution and embarked upon a 5 year strategy to implement processes ensuring fair resolution of claims and that lessons are learnt from adverse patient incidents. In its forward to its...
NHS pays indemnity costs again for failing to mediate costs dispute
The NHS has again been penalised for failing to mediate costs litigation. I wrote last month about the case of Reid v Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust where indemnity costs were ordered from the date of the offer to mediate. In Bristow v The...
SCCO penalises NHS for not mediating costs dispute
Master O’Hare in the Senior Courts Costs Office has confirmed that the rules on penalties for unreasonable refusals to mediate apply to costs litigation, not just the substantive personal injury or clinical negligence claim. In Reid v Buckinghamshire Healthcare...
Mediation Achiever of the Year 2015
Frances McCarthy of Pattinson and Brewer and Trust Mediation has received the award of Mediation Achiever of the Year 2015. The judges also had an award for a founder member of Trust Mediation Advisory Council and longstanding supporter of...
Are you making compelling offers to mediate?
Offering to mediate a personal injury or clinical negligence dispute is no longer considered a sign of weakness or an indication that you do not have the confidence to go to trial. Recent cases on costs sanctions for failing to engage in mediation such as PGF II...