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ADR and Mediation in the Insurance Industry
Trust Mediation worked with Expedite Resolution to host a conference on 30th October 2014 in London on mediation in the insurance industry. Our distinguished speakers were Debbie...
Personal Injury Mediation Achiever of the Year
We are delighted to announce that one of our founding panel mediators, Tim Wallis, has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to mediation in the personal injury field with the Eclipse...
Indemnity Costs Penalty for Refusal to Mediate
The High Court has added to the line of cases where a party has been penalised in costs for unreasonably refusing an offer to mediate. In the case of Garritt-Critchley v Andrew Ronnan and...
Should every letter of claim include an offer to mediate?
At the Claims Magazine Conference on 25th March 2014 Professor Dominic Regan reviewed PGF II SA v OMFS 1 Ltd, a case I have previously written about on this blog. He said as a result of...
£250,000 costs penalty for ignoring offer to mediate
What happens if you simply ignore an opponent’s offer to mediate? You run the serious risk of a significant costs penalty. Who says? Lord Justice Briggs and his colleagues in the Court of Appeal...
Reform of Part 45.10 to benefit all
Telephone Mediation through the Small Claims Mediation Scheme has proved to be very successful (figures for Aug – Oct 2011 showed 67% of nearly 3,000 cases settled). Currently the scheme is free to...
Implementing Jackson
Trust Mediation is hosting, and you are invited to join, a brain-storming litigation business discussion looking at the forthcoming Jackson reforms with some leading figures in the personal injury...
Can you settle costs at a mediation?
Can costs be settled at personal injury mediation? Yes, they can. One of the great strengths of the mediation process is that it enables the parties to reach agreement on everything on which...
How to persuade an opponent to mediate
The carrot Mediation often works best as an entirely voluntary process, so the carrot is better than the stick. A letter can be persuasive, but a phone discussion (or meeting) is more likely to...
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