by focusmediation | May 13, 2016 | Commercial, Family, Mediation, Uncategorized
Ever wondered what a clean break is? Or what the options are for your pensions on divorce? The new publication launched by the Family Justice Council is a useful guide for those contemplating separation and all that this entails financially. A lot of the case law we...
by focusmediation | Jun 5, 2014 | Commercial, Mediation
On 22nd May about 150 mediators, judges of various flavours, policy makers and politicians, assembled at The Met in Leeds for the annual Civil Mediation Council (CMC) conference. (We will get to the challenge in a minute). The glitterati of the mediation profession...
by focusmediation | Apr 10, 2014 | Commercial, Family, Mediation, Separation
People addicted to conflict – what does it mean? Who are they? Sometimes, perhaps often, solving intractable problems is so difficult, we can’t. We don’t want to try. So the easy answer is to blame someone else and create a distraction. That...
by focusmediation | Apr 2, 2014 | Commercial, Family, Mediation, Separation
One of the main objectives in mediation is to give people insights. Insights that help them understand the effect of their actions and of their style of communication on their families. This responsibility does not stop with divorce – where there are children it...
by focusmediation | Feb 12, 2014 | Commercial, Family, Mediation, Separation
The basket is asymmetrical and looks different from every angle. Each observer is convinced by the truth of their view. Imagine the basket is the physical embodiment of the truth. We believe our recollection of the truth is right, because we saw and experienced it and...
by focusmediation | Jan 22, 2014 | Commercial, Family, Mediation, Separation
When businesses and families have serious rows everything can seem insoluble and legal action may follow. However, emotions and old grudges may cause a dispute that has nothing to do with the apparent “legal problem” everyone thinks they are arguing about. For...
