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Minister Raitt Congratulates the Saint John Airport and the Public Service Alliance of Canada on New Agreement

An article highlighting success by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. 

Two online legal services that are changing the game

An interesting and somewhat controversial article highlighting two recent start ups, "that offer creative solutions to help people resolve legal disputes.Their methods include online reputation shaming, game theory tactics, and settlement negotiation...

Geist: New rules for domain disputes

"Domain name disputes emerged as one of the first Internet legal issues in the mid-1990s as speculators recognized the value of domain names and the potential to resell them to the highest bidder. The growth of “cybersquatting” led to sev...

Alternatives to the Alternatives – A Review of ADR Procedures Currently available to the Construction Industry in Canada.

“Claims should not be regarded as either inevitable or unpalatable, and complying with claims procedures should not be regarded as being an aggressive...

Mediating Trust Disputes

"Having mediated a number of trust disputes, I have noticed several challenges specific to mediating trust cases. One is that the involved parties can be quite varied, including the beneficiaries (who ironically may have no legal standing to make dec...

Italian Lawyers Strike Because of Mandatory Mediation

"Believe it or not, the Italian Bar Association is calling on its members to strike in opposition to a mandatory mediation law. According to the website for the Organismo Unitario dell’Avvocatura Italiana (the Italian bar association- www.oua.i...

The Benefits of Video Mediation

"Face-to-face mediations won’t go away, but for cost reasons, they sometimes give way to videoconferencing. Some professional mediators are banking on this trend. “It’s a great time to do online mediation,” Petra Maxwell says...

Understanding What Makes Conversations Difficult

"As mediators, the first step to helping people engage more productively in their challenging conversations is to understand what makes them challenging in the first place. Once we understand the cause, we can develop a communication plan in the medi...

HR Skills for the 21st Century

"Alternative dispute resolution: Dispute resolution in the workplace is a growing area for HR. Whether it’s through mediation, arbitration, negotiation or simple facilitation, HR needs to be equipped to handle workplace conflicts as they ari...

Mediation

"Commercial seaplane companies locked in a messy dispute over the newly-built Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre said Monday they’re willing to go to mediation but only if it includes an investigation of how the centre’s operator got the mon...