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2024: the year of non-court dispute resolution
Posted: 06/03/2024
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced its proposals to encourage the use of alternative dispute resolution methods, with the goal of providing separating families with faster resolutions to their cases and easing the significant pressure on the family justice system. This article provides an overview of the changes, and explores the different......>>
Ten tips for advising clients alongside mediation
Posted: 20/01/2023
Family Mediation Week 2023 is drawing to a close, a week where family law practitioners work to raise awareness of the benefits mediation can bring to separating families. It is also an opportunity to reflect on our own practice, and how to best support clients when they are engaged in mediation......>>
How mediation can help resolve specific issues relating to children
Posted: 18/01/2023
There are many potential decisions which need to be made by parents in relation to a child’s upbringing. All such decisions require the exercise of joint parental responsibility and include those relating to a child’s health, education, or religion. Possible topics which could give rise to disagreement between separated parents include......>>
Mediation: preserving the positives
Posted: 17/01/2023
Even the most amicable of separations can turn sour despite the couple’s best intentions of maintaining a positive relationship with one another. The reasons for the relationship going south are often wide ranging and highly personal to the couple going through the separation. In this article, we aim to explore the ways in which mediation......>>
The importance of language in the mediation process
Posted: 16/01/2023
Communication, or more precisely, a lack of it, is often at the heart of relationship breakdown. While the catalyst for a separation might ultimately present as something else, the origin often starts as an inability to connect or a tendency to misunderstand each other, or both. Once the decision to separate is made......>>
Mediation models – hybrid mediation
Posted: 20/01/2022
Mediation has traditionally involved couples who are separating meeting with an independent and professionally trained mediator, to discuss and try to agree the logistics and practicalities of their separation, including how finances should be divided between them and what the arrangements for children should be, if applicable......>>
Mediation – true or false?
Posted: 18/01/2022
Following on from our article yesterday in recognition of Family Mediation Week, which gave an overview of the mediation process and highlighted some of its advantages, today’s article explores the mediation process further. If you would like to explore whether a reconciliation is possible, a therapist or counsellor would be the most appropriate......>>
Why separated and divorcing couples should consider mediation
Posted: 17/01/2022
This week, 17 to 21 January, is Family Mediation Week throughout England and Wales, a campaign which aims to highlight the benefits of mediation as a method for approaching conflicts and disputes within separating families. Using mediation can be one of the best ways of resolving disputes for those going through divorce or separation......>>

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