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FAQs for Mediators

Stephen Walker

What do I do now? Every mediator asks themselves this.

Answering 50 common ethical, practical and technical problems that arise at mediations, with key practice points highlighted in Q&A format.

Topics include:

Impartiality: You arrive at the mediation and suddenly realise that you know one of parties. What do you do?
Joint Opening Sessions: One side wants one the other doesn't. What do you do?
Bad behaviour: One party is secretly recording the mediation. What do you do?
Offers: Neither side will make an offer. They both say they want to hear from the other side first. What do you do?

Stages covered:
Pre-mediation
At the mediation
The End of the Mediation and After

Each entry includes:

The core issues behind the question
Case studies of authentic, anonymized, true-life examples The ethical, legal, procedural and commercial issues highlighted and explained in straightforward language
Advice on your options: proven tips for immediate use
Checklists, sample emails, scripts and templates.
Cross-references to cases, protocols, codes of conduct.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Tottel Publishing
  • Publish Date: Nov 16th, 2017
  • Pages: 392
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.61in - 6.69in - 0.81in - 1.38lb
  • EAN: 9781526500854
  • Categories: Arbitration, Negotiation, MediationConflict Resolution & Mediation

About the Author

Walker, Stephen: -

Stephen Walker is an independent civil and commercial mediator. He has conducted over 750 mediations. He is ranked in the top 40 UK mediators by both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 and WWL and is on the International Mediation Institute's (IMI) panel of accredited international mediators.

He became an accredited specialist online mediator in 2015 and has done over 150 online mediations. He also undertook specialised training in family and workplace mediation and is dual certified in the USA through INADR.

Stephen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal Society of Arts as well as a visiting lecturer in mediation at Kings College London. He is regularly asked to give workshops, talks and presentations on mediation.

Stephen is the author of five mediation books published by Bloomsbury Professional Mediation Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation (2nd Ed); Setting Up in Business as a Mediator (2nd Ed); FAQs for Mediators; Mediation: An A-Z Guide; and Mediation Behaviour: Why We Act Like We Do.

For further information please visit www.swalkermediation.com