Mediation advocacy: delivering better client outcomes and strengthening practice
Too often treated as a procedural step, mediation holds distinct opportunities. When embraced, it can offer the best chance at resolution and a stronger practice.
The mechanics of an effective mediation
Mediation is a cordial and more flexible approach to resolving disputes. There is a need to balance the client’s cause with achieving a commercial outcome.
Singapore Convention: The next tool in resolving international disputes
Benefits of the Singapore Convention to Australians resolving international commercial disputes.
New Singapore Convention set to bring greater certainty to international mediation
An expert look at the new Singapore Convention on international mediation. By ANTHONY LO SURDO SC
Singapore Convention 2018: reshaping alternate dispute resolution and enforcement
The Singapore Convention, if ratified by the UN General Assembly, will reshape international commercial agreements and ‘settlement agreements. By CRAIG CARTER.
The case that changed me – Kathy Merrick
What I learned from watching a master mediator in action.
Misrepresentation and ethics in mediation
Mediation involves the fundamental proposition that a lawyer must never make a representation to an opponent or mediator that is known to be untrue. By…
Family Wars
As delays increase and a Federal Government inquiry begins, we investigate the troubled state of family law.
The costs of failing to attend court-ordered mediation
There are many benefits to court-ordered mediation but the parties and mediator also have a number of obligations which are often overlooked. By ANTHONY LO…