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Thursday, 02 April 2009 13:39 |
 Is mediation countercyclical? Not if mediators Bill Wood QC and Patrick Walker can help it. Between them they will be covering nearly 500 miles in two separate charitable cycling efforts over the coming months. Bill Wood QC (pictured) is taking on a hefty 350-mile ride from Cherbourg to Paris in support of Help for Heroes over the Whitsun Vacation. Patrick Walker is taking on the Fred Whitton challenge, a 112-mile ride, including, he assures us, most of the steepest hills in the Lake District. He is doing so for Marie Curie Cancer Care. All donations will be gratefully received at the following pages: Bill Wood Patrick Walker |
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Monday, 26 January 2009 16:18 |
Full coverage and discussion of the landmark Civil Mediation Council (CMC) Annual General Meeting of 10 December 2008 will follow in the January issue of The Mediator Magazine. Events, however, are moving rapidly.
Details of the CMC's proposed registration schemes, codes of conduct and complaints machinery are available as of this week on the CMC website. Click here for details.
The proposals envisage that the CMC will regulate not only the conduct of mediation providers - which has always been within the CMC's remit - but also, for the first time, that of independent individual mediators. CMC chairman Sir Henry Brooke's presentation in support of the proposals is available here. |
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 09:25 |
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Chambers and Partners unveiled its latest rankings last night, and the news for mediators is, well, interesting.
William Wood QC, Stephen Ruttle QC, Philip Naughton QC, Elizabeth Jones QC and Richard Price QC have unaccountably been relegated to junior barrister status. The market's biggest faller, however, was David Shapiro, for whom a 'senior statesman' category was invented last year: 'few are better or more skilled' than Shapiro in 2007. This year he doesn't merit a mention.
Elsewhere faint praise abounds, particularly at Serle Court. Beverly-Ann Rogers will no doubt be pleased to know that she's 'getting better...'. Clients will also be reassured to know that Elizabeth Jones 'fully understands the difference between litigation and mediation.'
We also learn that Lord Griffiths was 'a former High Court judge'. David Beckham was captain of the school football team: why are these matters so seldom mentioned?
And there's plenty more. Servers are overloaded at present, so feel free to download the mediators' section here.
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 13:33 |
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When the question of regulation in the profession arises, I'm always intrigued. Just what kind of skullduggery do proponents imagine is going on behind those closed doors? I'd love to know. To date, I've yet to uncover any truly disgraceful behaviour here in the UK. But every profession has its rotten apples, and few more so than Jersey mediator Jonathan Linden, who, according to website mycentraljersey.com, required a 25-man SWAT team and crisis team to resolve a domestic dispute of his own making. http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20081015/CRIME/81015022 Divorce mediator charged in SWAT response to domestic dispute in Warren WARREN —Police have identified the man arrested Tuesday night following the county's SWAT team response to a report of domestic dispute on Olsen Drive. Jonathan Linden, 52, a divorce and civil/commercial mediator, was charged with two counts of terroristic threats and one count of possession of a firearm for am unlawful purpose in connection with two domestic disturbances Monday and Tuesday at 17 Olsen Drive, Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne J. Forrest said. At approximately 6:50 p.m. Tuesday, Warren police received a call about a domestic dispute between Linden and the 53-year-old woman with whom he lives. The caller also indicated that Linden was possibly armed with a handgun, Forrest said.
Warren police, along with approximately 25 members of the Somerset County SWAT Team and Crisis Negotiators, responded to the residence in a quiet, affluent neighborhood.
After setting up a perimeter around the home, police and SWAT members arrested Linden when he came out of the rear of the residence with two dogs, Forrest said.
The victim was later interviewed by police at which time she reported Linden had threatened to kill her, adding that he had acted in a similar manner Monday at their home by wielding a handgun, Linden said.
Police recovered six handguns and two shotguns from the residence. One of the weapons, a loaded Browning 9mm, was described by the victim as having been brandished by Linden during the incident on Monday, Forrest said.
In addition, police located what is believed to be a gun shot through the master bedroom floor as reported by the victim from a previous incident, the prosecutor said. |
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Friday, 03 October 2008 12:49 |
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Mediators often tell me it's not the big money disputes which are the toughest to crack. From across the Atlantic we wish this New Jersey mediator well: ALLENHURST, N.J. - It will be up to a mediator to settle a dispute after a neighbor's dog urinated on Allenhurst Mayor Robert Wolf's lawn.
Wolf filed a complaint saying the dog caused bald spots to appear after Mark Finley allowed the dog to urinate on the lawn between the sidewalk and the curb.
Before going to court Thursday, the mayor requested that Finley sign a letter of apology and that Finley would never do it again. Finley refused, saying he didn't do any damage and "every dog urinates."
Wolf refused to comment.
Finley and several residents of the tiny Monmouth County town believe the complaint was in retaliation after a resident asked about a possible code violation. The mayor's wife was operating an Internet business from their home. |
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