Northwest Mediation
Commercial & Family Mediation and Individual Dispute Resolution

We’re in America again for the start of this week’s blog. Mediators from Pennsylvania’s state labour (labor) board have been requested to...

..and not for the best reasons. Mediators are just people too and whilst we all have thick skins and have to allow parties to “offload”...

By way of demonstrating the breadth of disputes that mediation can assist in, and with a title shamelessly stolen from Ian Drury) we...

Ok they aren’t actually babies but in Dundee this month over 100 young people (along with teachers and mediators) will come together to...

Everything we do in mediation is based upon the simple idea that what anyone says to the mediator is in confidence, without prejudice and...

Mediation news this week comes from Australia and America’s Mid-west. You may recall a previous blog in which I mentioned that Pankaj and...

If you're old enough to remember the above bastardised advertising campaign then you like me will have been around in the 70's and 80's...

Reports this week confirm that the Royal Bank of Scotland has agreed to mediate settlements with up to thirty-four thousand institutional...

Northwest Mediation hasn’t quite managed to get the Papal seal of approval just yet, but recent news does show how mediation is now...

Every mediation I’ve observed or conducted begins with doubts. Some parties are openly of the opinion that the other side won’t engage or...

Rights of way and access rights are often the cause of disputes between neighbours, and can be solved by alternative dispute...

In mediation news from America this week pilots for the American based Spirit Airlines have made a request for the intervention of a...

I'm always happy to see any kind of publicity for mediation, after all there's no such thing as bad publicity. So my ears pricked up when...

ADR as a topic didn’t feature very highly in the coverage of the potential, and now actual, effect of Brexit, in fact let’s be honest it...

On the way home from a session the other day I was listening to BBC Radio 4 who were attending the most unusual form of arbitration I've...

In 2004 two brothers co-founded a credit card payment processing company, Gravity Payments, Lucas sued Dan for several hundred thousand...

At a recent mediation it was suggested that I would be "playing mediation tennis" all day, by which I hoped they meant I'd be travelling...

Whenever I get asked if a participant should bring someone with them to their mediation, I ask them 3 questions. 1. Will they support...

I’ve been out and about reviewing new meeting places this week and it’s been a pleasure to meet so many professionals who are not only...

With the government and junior doctors looking in need of some assistance do they go to court to argue it out ? No they call on...