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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
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Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf has been appointed mediator in a high-profile compensation claim by the family of Baha Mousa, an Iraqi hotel worker beaten to death by British soldiers in Basra five years ago. The mediation is scheduled for the first week in June at a venue still to be determined.
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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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   As of 20 May, Littleton Chambers is offering a new, rapid-response mediation service. According to Richard Price QC, under the new regime, ‘a phone call in the morning could lead to a mediated exit agreement that same day.’
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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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