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In a very special article, David Burrows marks half a century at the coalface: has anything changed for the better?

Family lawyers have queried the value of compulsory mediation, following government proposals to make it a prerequisite to the family courts.

On 28 September 2022, the President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, gave the John Cornwell Lecture 2022 to the Family Mediation Association Conference (FMAC).

MoJ to follow in Canada’s footsteps with mandatory mediation

Ysella Jago Dispute Resolution Senior Specialist, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, explains how ADR is speeding up UK’s digital connectivity

Solicitors have welcomed the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ’s) decision to invest an additional £1.3m into the family mediation voucher scheme, but reiterated calls for legal aid funding to be restored

Norman Hartnell discusses the current delays in court & how mediation could help relieve the situation

Tony Allen ends his series on the future of dispute resolution—depicting a post Halsey world where judges can order (A)DR prospectively & costs sanctions take a back seat

Parties brave (or foolhardy) enough to reject mediation who get their risk assessment wrong are extremely likely to face tough sanctions, as Tony Allen explains

Tony Allen, solicitor and CEDR Chambers mediator, continues his series of articles on whether mediation can be compulsorily ordered, in this week’s NLJ

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Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees

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Employers cannot rely on wellbeing services alone to defend workplace stress claims after a High Court decision awarding almost £1m to an overworked employee

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NLJ this week: Constitutional conventions tested as power changes hands

The constitutional fallout from a change of prime minister, rather than the politics, is under scrutiny as questions arise over the limits of executive authority in a leadership transition

NLJ this week: Lawyers must become product designers

The legal profession is undergoing a fundamental shift from selling services to creating technology-enabled products, according to Professor Luke Mason, Head of School of Law at Regent's University London

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Mediation

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron