Welcome to the latest issue of The Mediator. This month we bring you a landmark fees survey, detailing how and how much UK mediators are billing. We also profile Henry Brown, one of mediation's founding fathers, in which  he talks about 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.

In My Toughest Mediation this month, In Place of Strife's Mark Jackson-Stops gives a wry account of an epic mediation. 

Elsewhere we bring you news of Littleton Chambers' new urgent mediation unit, news of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' first mediation fellows, and last but not least, news of the launch of The Mediator Magazine's sister site, The Mediator Directory.

Matthew Rushton
Editor