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07 March 2014
Issue: 7597 / Categories: Features
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Book review: Mediation Law and Civil Practice

"This book is bang up-to-date & goes into detail about the impact of the new civil justice reforms"

Author: Tony Allen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
ISBN: 978 1 78043 213 7
Price: £55.00

This is a comprehensive work, which will be of interest to a broad readership.

Tony deals with complex issues in a style that is easy to read understand by those unfamiliar with the process, as well as providing valuable insight and practical guidance to mediators and others involved in the field of mediation.

Mediation sits uneasily within the legal framework as Tony identifies on page 75 of his book: “The legal structure which underpins mediation, a flexible and adaptable process with no precedental or formal component, as to procedure, evidence or outcome is entirely determined by precedental principles derived and developed through the somewhat erratic vagaries of common or judicial decisions.Few Court rules govern its use and none regulate its conduct.The related paradox is that it is difficult to publish its success because of the very confidentiality which makes it work so well”.

Art or science?

To this I would

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