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 Following prolonged consultation, the organisation known as the Panel of Independent Mediators (PIM) is to restructure and re-brand as of September 2008. Now ten years old, the group whose members handle an estimated one in five of all mediations conducted in the UK, is to reconfigure along lines more appropriate to today's marketplace. |
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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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   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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 On 17 March members of the Commercial Services union at ACAS will commence industrial action pending resolution of a dispute over pay. The reconciliation body, which is expected to play a central role in resolving disputes under the terms of the forthcoming Employment Bill, appears unable to resolve its own disputes.
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 Presiley Baxendale QC, a formidable advocate, former head of Blackstone Chambers and latterly one of the UK’s leading mediators, is set to retire at the end of March 2008. Her reasons for doing so, aged 57, remain private.
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