Northwest Mediation
Commercial Mediation and Individual Dispute Resolution

Road traffic personal injury claims were where I cut my teeth as a young lawyer, in the years since I’ve often wondered why mediation is so little used in all forms of personal injury claims, I’d used round tables and informal mediation on numerous occasions leading up to the final decision to change role and become a mediator. So it’s no surprise that in New Delhi that a quorum led by Justice A.K. Sikri (who also stepped down from the Supreme Court this week) has asked law m

Whichever of the many sides you find yourself on in the Brexit debate this article highlights how a mediation could break the impasse and points out that the current actions of all parties are in (as William Zartman described it) a “mutually hurting stalemate”. It’s a position many civil, commercial and individual clients find themselves in, they can’t find a way to move forward without hurting themselves or being seen to hurt the other party. It is then, as this article make

Two stories from America to start with this week, Newark (New Jersey not the one in God’s own county of Lincolnshire). As with other states New Jersey is now funding a programme of mediation for people facing foreclosure (repossession of their home in UK terms). NJ has the highest number of such actions in the US and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka confirmed there were 800 foreclosures per year. The aim, as with any mediation, is to level the playing field and allow the homeowners w