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Mediation: The long, long wait

Dealing with emotion is important, but the dispute resolution process is not the place, writes Jean-Yves Gilg

Drinking, gambling, and mistakes in notices

Jeremy Phillips considers the effects of the government's proposals to tackle alcohol-related crime, as well as other recent developments in the world of licensing

Compulsory mediation can work for low-value disputes, say lawyers

Forcing mediation on a reluctant party may not result in settlement but the process could see clients save 'hundreds of thousands of pounds'

Appeals and judicial review in the tribunal system

Alec Samuels explains the appeals procedure following R (Cart) v Upper Tribunal

Family mediation: The depressingly low take-up

Receipt of information about mediation should be compulsory for all in the family courts, with no exemptions, says Hazel Wright

Send in the clowns

What is scarier: a maniacal clown or a human rights lawyer?

British troops will lose human rights protections

Civil liberties lawyer hits out at the government for misleading the public over human rights claims

Insurers cry foul as MoJ rows back on whiplash reform

APIL calls on the government to investigate insurance industry for rising premium costs