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For this issue we have taken pains to revamp the site in accordance with readers' demands. This means you can now print articles, email them, and navigate the site with greater ease. We have also provided a subscription service (on the right) where readers can sign up for email alerts, and even subscribe (bottom left) to RSS feeds.
This is part of a rolling programme of changes to the site, which we hope will add to your enjoyment of the magazine.
In this issue we bring news of Presiley Baxendale's retirement; of the planned strike over pay at ACAS, and details of a proposed amendment to the Employment Bill which would make mediation or conciliation mandatory prior bringing a dispute before a tribunal.
Elsewhere, Andrew Paton gives some cool-headed advice on what to do when walk-outs and shootings dog your attempts to bring unity.
As ever, feel free to email me your comments.
Matthew Rushton
Editor
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Survey
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On any objective basis, mediation is scandalously cheap. Has the market simply got it wrong? The Mediator finds out
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Profile
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 Here, in part one of a two-part profile, Henry Brown, one of mediation’s founding fathers talks candidly about some of the stumbling blocks which have impeded mediation’s progress over the last 25 years and where he believes the profession needs to change to fulfil its potential.
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Book Review
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Written by David Cornes
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 In his introduction, David Richbell states that his purpose in writing the book is to '…attempt to deliver to the industry that I love a book that will help restore common sense to its disagreements and so allow it to become an even more human and respected industry than the one I left.' He has achieved that mission with distinction, writes mediator David Cornes |
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Written by Mark Jackson-Stops
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 Eighteen months of cajoling and persuasion and the day arrived. I had spoken with each solicitor and, as always, put together an attendance list. My heart sank.
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