Private conversations. Powerful outcomes.
Who Chooses Mediation
Anyone, at anytime between the circumstance that lead to a dispute, up to a trial taking place.
Commercial
A commercial dispute *might* cost your company a lot more than money. It can cost time that is otherwise critical to business development and profitability, it can cost relationships and unquantifiable collateral damage to your reputation when clients, customers and colleague know you are in a dispute.
Our mediation offers all participants to the dispute the chance to speak directly to one another, or with or via the mediator. What you tell the mediator is confidential unless you consent to it being shared: this process and environment can lead to your own privately agreed resolution. If you agree a settlement, it is binding and the dispute ends.
Mediation is suited to insurance disputes involving the following cover: political risk (CEND), trade credit and excess trade credit, aviation, financial institutions, professional indemnity (solicitors), kidnap and ransom, product recall (regional and global, food and electronics), third party liability claims and reinsurance.
Workplace
If you have a team who are struggling to work well together, managers not managing well or executives whose disagreements prevent them making progress, mediation can help. The space and time to speak to an independent third party, with no interest in the outcome allows productive and honest conversations to take place. In a confidential environment, causes of disagreement can be understood and then solutions identified by the participants themselves, because they know and understand their working environment.
As a result of mediation, a longer term dispute can be avoided, stress and anxiety reduced (if not removed completely), positive relationships restored and productivity returned. Workplace mediation offers an opportunity to nurture a workforce, acknowledging that sometimes we all need a bit of extra time and space to see things clearly.
Civil
Civil disputes don’t always feel civil; in fact, they usually feel highly personal, for both the claimant and the defendant, and the more personal a dialogue the greater the chances of it becoming polarised. You can choose to change the direction of that dialogue, and move to resolution. Together with your lawyer at a mediation, you and the other participants can engage in confidential discussions to understand whether and where opportunities for resolution exist.
Housing, landlord and tenant
Your home environment matters, whether you work there or not, and whether you own it or not. If you are a landlord you need to trust your tenants. Before an argument becomes a formal dispute mediation can help participants explore and agree any element of property use that is causing disruption. Whether it is repair, behaviour or use of the property, mediation will provide a confidential environment where all ideas can be explored and from where agreement can be reached.