A couple of weeks ago I found myself deep in the Cotswolds. Two middle-aged neighbouring couples on a very pleasant estate of modernish detached houses had fallen out over the exact position of the legal boundary. There were the usual allegations of an encroaching extension, a wrongly positioned replacement fence and over-hanging guttering. The mediation […]
Why mediate? Won’t a settlement meeting be just as effective? A recent case got me thinking… At the end of last year, I mediated a case between a bank and a married couple who were property developers. It was a sadly all too familiar story of outwardly successful developers borrowing increasing sums of money against […]
‘Undisputed doyen of mediation’ David Richbell explains how to avoid legal costs escalating beyond reason. […]
Mark Jackson-Stops explains how mediation can result in the best outcome for everyone. […]
