This article follows a radio chat I was recently involved in on BBC Radio 5 Live, Drive hour last Wednesday. We have now seen two decades of significant changes to the Child Support Statutory scheme in 1993 (CS1), 2003 (CS2)
The process into mediation and mediation itself relies on questions and curiosity but the thing about curiosity nowadays is that it is short lived. For us to be successful as mediators we find ourselves having to capture the public’s curiosity
When someone as senior as Lord Justice Munby talks about taking Judges and the court out of the divorce process, it is time for us all to sit up and listening, if we have not be listening already. Outside, the
It might sound strange but in mediation much of what we focus on is the fear, concerns and frustrations our clients are experiencing. Not for the sake of it, obviously but because the answers and positive outcomes lie in dealing
Will you tell them how much they have hurt me? The simple answer is no but why won’t I? Again, the simple answer is because as a mediator I am neutral and must act in an impartial way. How off
Often a parent will say that they would rather the court dictate their children’s arrangements; as they believe that a legally binding order will mean that arrangements will be kept to, and that they will get the outcome they want.
One of the main challenge facing professionals engaged in mediation and conflict resolution practice is to ‘ recruit’ all the parties into the process from the start. This has to be handled with care. It is nearly always one person
The Office for National Statistics latest reports showed that there were 118,140 divorces in total in 2012, which is the equivalent to 13 divorces every hour of every day of the year. The question for every one of these
Recent media coverage of two large-scale pieces of research show that children and young people are showing signs of new levels of despair and depression; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25653389. Amongst the reasons given were poverty and family breakdown, pressure from school and parents
THE POWER OF AN APOLOGY IN MEDIATION THE PRECIPITOUS EVENT I jumped on the wrong train and just missed the opportunity to jump off in time before the train started moving, despite my illegal efforts to do so. Naturally, the
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