Practice Notes: ADR & Mediation
Family courts crisis deepening amid rise in domestic violence
The president of the family division warns that the problems of the crisis in the family courts were not going away and are getting worse
Moore Barlow launches ‘The Surrey Initiative’
Firm urges others to support it seeking family law reform for out-of-court options
Withers recruits former AG as consultant global counsel
Withers has recruited former attorney general Geoffrey Cox MP to its international law team as consultant global counsel
Busting the litigation backlog
Tony Guise explains how technology and ADR can overcome the tsunami of litigation
Calls for ADR to beat impending ‘tsunami’ of civil claims
A backlog of civil cases, ineffective IT and covid-19-related claims will trigger a “tsunami” of litigation in the civil justice system, a repo
New digital dispute resolution platform for volume covid-19 disputes
A new online framework enabling expedited dispute resolution has gone live to help businesses before it is too late.
SDT decision exposes unfairness
A solicitor who misled a law firm and a mediator was struck off after that firm reported him to the SRA, despite his firm deciding to deal w
Alternative dispute resolution forums: lessons from liberalisation
Solicitors need to identify and build on their strengths to demonstrate the value they bring compared to alternative types of representatives, says Mark Fl
Child contact charity reports fall in solicitors’ referrals
The proportion of referrals from solicitors to the National Association of Child Contact Centres (NACCC) has fallen by 46 percentage points sinc
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