FAQs for Mediators

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 'FAQs for Mediators' tackles mediation practice points in a new Questions and Answers format. FAQs for Mediators provides the answers to 50 common ethical, practical and technical problems faced by mediators. It presents the key mediation practice points in an easy to use Questions and Answers format. All the questions have arisen out of actual mediations and cover a wide range of topics including: Impartiality - When you arrive at the mediation you suddenly realise that you know one of the parties/their lawyers. What do you do? Joint Opening Sessions - One side wants a Joint Opening Session the other doesn't. What do you do? Bad behavior - One party is secretly recording what is going on in 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? Covering all mediation stages, 'Pre-mediation', 'At the mediation' and 'The End of the Mediation and After', each entry includes: The core issues pertinent to each of the questions that need to be considered. Case studies illustrating the question and putting it into a real life setting. All the cases studies are authentic, anonymised, true life examples of problems you can face at any time as a mediator. The ethical, legal, procedural and commercial issues highlighted and explained in straightforward language. Advice on options that are available to you. Proven tips that you can use immediately in your mediation practice. Supported by checklists and sample emails, scripts and templates. Helpful cross-references to cases, protocols, codes of conduct and precedents are also included. Written in a user friendly style for both non-lawyer and lawyer mediators FAQs for Mediators will increase your confidence in handling the dilemmas and problems all mediators face. If there is one thing that all mediators need it is confidence! 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-mediationAt the mediationThe 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 languageAdvice on your options: proven tips for immediate useChecklists, sample emails, scripts and templates.Cross-references to cases, protocols, codes of conduct.This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Mediation online service. Preface Bibliography Part I Pre-mediation Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7 Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 Question 11 Part 2 At the mediation Question 12 Question 13 Question 14 Question 15 Question 16 Question 17 Question 18 Question 19 Question 20 Question 21 Question 22 Question 23 Question 24 Question 25 Question 26 Question 27 Question 28 Question 29 Question 30 Question 31 Question 32 Question 33 Question 34 Question 35 Question 36 Question 37 Question 38 Question 39 Question 40 Question 41 Question 42 Question 43 Part 3 End of the mediation and after Question 44 Question 45 Question 46 Question 47 Question 48 Question 49 Question 50 Appendix 1 SCMA Guidelines for Lawyers in Mediations Appendix 2 Mediation Record Form Appendix 3 Mediation Terms and Conditions Index