Workplace conflict is inevitable. Spats between colleagues can bubble up over everything from seating arrangements and the temperature of the office to who is leading on projects and how resources are allocated. When disputes like these occur, it can cause…
Listening is a skill that is developed and perfected over time. As you practice active listening, it becomes easier and more natural. Mediation is a process of handling conflict in which parties come together and try to settle their issues…
Debunking common Myths about Mediation and Asserting how Litigators can help with the process. Mediation has rightfully earned a reputation as being a generally easier and less expensive road to divorce. Unfortunately, it has also earned an unfair reputation as…
As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, every aspect of our pre-pandemic ways of work is under review. Simply returning to our old ways is not the answer. To do so is to ignore the lessons learned while working remotely. Dispute resolution,…
ChatGPT is a new language generation program available to anyone for free, developed by Open AI. According to ChatGPT, it is “based on artificial neural networks and uses machine learning algorithms to predict the most likely next word or sequence…
Following the introduction of federal polity as provided in the Constitution of Nepal, 2015, alternative dispute resolution process and mechanism has received a new impetus with judicial committee functioning to resolve community-based disputes at local level. Training manuals, resource materials…
Mediation is a proven Alternative Dispute Resolution method. Some even consider it the only true ADR but I shouldn’t get into this here and now. Since the European Union has adopted its Directive 2008/52/EC, which came into force 6 years…
The role of mediators is to help people through conflict. Mediation may be seen as a process that evolves over four phases. It begins, usually in a joint session, and usually ends in a final joint session.
The Indian Judicial System has sought recourse to Mediation for delivering the answers to which litigation has failed to provide. While fulfilling the same, Mediation has gone over a diverse phase, which can be compared to the changes in the…
The last mediation I conducted in 2021 did not result in a resolution. There were a number of reasons why which I could not quite put my finger on. But over the holidays I read some books on negotiation which…
