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A lawyer who sued a student loan company over hidden fees in loan agreements cannot be forced into arbitration and can pursue a class action, the 2nd Circuit has ruled, finding the loan agreement's class action and class arbitration waiver clause unconsci...
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways' (BA) shareholders should use their influence to end a long running dispute between the airline and its cabin crew, the Unite trade union said....
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes the successful mediation of a dispute between Indonesia’s police forces and Tempo magazine by the country’s Press Council. The June 28 issue of Tempo featured an illustration showing a...
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recession, and how funders are supporting that work.] ASHEVILLE, N.C. - When the recession hit, the Mediation Center in Asheville saw a predictable increase in the need for its services. Requests for parent-teen mediation services spiked, as did requests...
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Lehman Brothers Australia and a group of 70 local councils are locked in mediation talks in Sydney in a bid to resolve issues surrounding a $200 million loss suffered during the height of the credit crunch. The talks aim to avoid Wingecarribee Shire...
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order to clear the huge arrears of pending cases in courts. While there was need for codifying the mediation concepts through legislative changes, mediation would be successful only if there were competent mediators, the CJI said while addressing a...
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pendency of cases, then the high courts and the Supreme Court have to take the lead in encouraging mediation and conciliation for settlement of litigation, the country's seniormost judges said on Saturday. It was an impassioned appeal from Chief Justice...
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S. H. Kapadia on Saturday underlined the need for spreading a new settlement culture for the success of mediation as an alternative dispute resolution system. The absence of the settlement culture among litigants is the single most important factor in...
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disputes. "In India, we do not have a settlement culture. People are not picking settlement culture in India. Mediation and arbitration as a mode of dispute settlement is popular and successful in other countries," said Chief Justice Kapadia. "We must...
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disputes. "In India we do not have a settlement culture. People are not picking settlement culture (in India). Mediation and arbitration as a mode of dispute settlement is popular and successful in other countries," Justice Kapadia said. "We must...
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Chiara Albanese broaches the tender topic of pay and profitability among arbitrators and mediators. Creating revenue isn’t just a question of hourly rates – and are arbitrators really “a drag on profitability”?...
