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Northwest Mediation
Commercial & Family Mediation and Individual Dispute Resolution
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Mediation not litigation
I was all ready to get on my high horse and start shouting when I read the title of this article, however the second paragraph took the...

Ed Johnson
May 15, 20195 min read
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Group Action Mediation
Many years ago I was tangentially connected to the work for the claimant’s in the Factor VIII blood products cases. At the time no class...

Ed Johnson
May 1, 20194 min read
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Mediation not Litigation
In the far east Vietnam’s the Supreme People’s Court is drafting a law to strengthen the use of mediation and dialogue at court. The...

Ed Johnson
Apr 24, 20194 min read
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Mediation an answer to the housing crisis?
A quick roundup of the pre-Easter mediation news including some eggcellent steps to deal with a landlord and tenant crisis from which the...

Ed Johnson
Apr 17, 20196 min read
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No more blame game - divorce mediation
The proposed changes to no fault divorce have been doing the rounds for long before I began my legal training (back before Woolf in the...

Ed Johnson
Apr 10, 20195 min read
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What and where is Mediation happening this week?
There’s a whole load of mediation starting this week:- Mediation in Manchester, such headlines always leap out at me, given Northwest...

Ed Johnson
Apr 3, 20193 min read
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Storm Warning - Mediation Help!
Whilst Northwest Mediation can’t calm Storm Gareth (named after my brother) which currently rages outside and hasn’t been asked to help...

Ed Johnson
Mar 13, 20195 min read
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Go to Mediation not Litigation
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...

Ed Johnson
Mar 6, 20195 min read
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Employment mediation, conflict resolution, good neighbours and restorative justice
The union Unite (the US one not the one over here) and Prospect are going into mediation with State of Jersey’s employment board to...

Ed Johnson
Feb 19, 20195 min read
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From the skies above to the waters below
Lewiston airport has been taken over by the City of Lewiston, many airport users and local residents are unhappy about the process and so...

Ed Johnson
Feb 6, 20193 min read
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The Bishop or Hancock's half hour, in confidence
The Right Reverend Richard Pain, the Bishop of Monmouth, has had what are euphemistically called personality clashes with his senior...

Ed Johnson
Jan 30, 20195 min read
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Brexit a case of car crash Mediation?
Whichever of the many sides you find yourself on in the Brexit debate this article highlights how a mediation could break the impasse and...

Ed Johnson
Jan 23, 20194 min read
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From playground to international conflict
I’ve blogged before about my daughter’s school having restorative ambassadors well now in Thanet another group of year 5 children are...

Ed Johnson
Jan 16, 20195 min read
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If at first you don't succeed
There has been a long running dispute in Maryland regarding the under-funding of black colleges in comparison to those colleges who have...

Ed Johnson
Jan 8, 20194 min read
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Happy New Year
Another year begins and following a short break Northwest Mediation is back mediating for companies and individuals with civil disputes...

Ed Johnson
Jan 2, 20193 min read
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Mediate and get your money back
Last week I blogged about the Civil Justice Committee’s report on how to encourage mediation, perhaps the high court in India have...

Ed Johnson
Dec 19, 20184 min read
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Employment, wolves and training in mediation
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) which was only incepted to mediate financial complaints in November this year has...

Ed Johnson
Dec 12, 20184 min read
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CJC report on mediation
At last we get the report from the Civil Justice Committee that we UK mediators have been waiting for Sir Terrence Etherton, Master of...

Ed Johnson
Dec 6, 20184 min read
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Mediation not a pain in the a...
We start with news this week of three mediation conferences, two of which are in Istanbul. Tomorrow sees the second mediation conference...

Ed Johnson
Nov 28, 20184 min read
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This is Spinal Tap (in mediation)
For people of a certain age the 1984 rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap holds a much beloved place in their hearts (I couldn't find a shot...

Ed Johnson
Nov 21, 20184 min read
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