Rodney Max explains that multi-party mediations have a different nature and unique elements and procedures.
https://www.law.ufl.edu/_pdf/academics/centers/cgr/7th_conference/Multiparty_Mediation.pdf
Read MoreArticle suggests strategies to adopt at mediation, what not to do, and what to do.
https://www.mediate.com/articles/SebokT.cfm
Read MoreArticle suggests important criteria for selecting a mediator.
http://www.mediationtools.com/articles/selecting.html
Read MoreArticle explains that a mediator should adopt both facilitative and evaluative approaches, and that most important asset may be tenacity.
https://www.mediate.com/articles/roberts3.cfm
Read MoreArticle explains – not entirely seriously – what a mediator does (and how that helps).
https://www.mediate.com/articles/ahrens1.cfm
Read MoreArticle describes the typical mediation process, how to select a mediator, and why mediation works.
https://www.mediate.com/articles/krikorian.cfm
Read MoreExamples of the High Court's occasional practice of accommodating a mediation window in the trial timetable. See my August 2022 article in the New Zealand Law Journal for analysis.
Braid Motors Ltd v Scott (2001) 15 PRNZ 508 (HC)
Read MoreArticle describes the typical mediation process and lists and evaluates reasons why it works.
https://www.mediate.com/articles/roberts.cfm
Read MoreThe Court of Appeal holding that, in the absence of some particular compelling circumstance demonstrating the general rule was not appropriate, a mere failure to resort to ADR was not sufficient to lead to an award of adverse costs.
See my August 2022 article in the New Zealand Law Journal for analysis.
Beadle v M & L A Moore Ltd [1998] 3 NZLR 271 (CA)
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