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How Workplace / Employment Mediation works in practice

Mediation provides a structured, effective means of avoiding Employment Tribunals and Courts and bringing disputes to resolution in a quicker and more efficient and cost effective manner. Mediation is cost effective, confidential and discrete, and provides certainty to the parties in that they will sign up to their own resolution and thus it can also deliver to the parties benefits unavailable in an employment tribunal or court.[Read More.....]

EU Mediation Regulations now law in Ireland

On the 5th May 2011 with very little publicity the Minister for Justice and Equality, Mr Alan Shatter signed new regulations, SI No. 209 of 2011 European Communities Mediation Regulations 2011, into Law. The latest SI specifically relates to the use of mediation in civil and commercial cross border disputes, and provides for a number of very important provisions, which are also part of the Draft Mediation Bill 2010.[Read More.....]

Difficult decisions pushing families toward elder care mediation

As people age, financial planning can take on new levels of complexity. On top of the usual questions about managing assets, families may have to decide who will control the purse strings, and when.Will the house be sold and who makes that decision? Will it have to be fixed up first? Where will those funds come from? Can the home be rented out? Who will manage it? What if the siblings disagree? Those questions are giving rise to the practice of elder care mediation.[Read More.....]

How to get the Best Result from a Family Mediation or Commercial Mediation – Part 1

At Mediate Ireland 90% of all mediations we have engaged in have taken only 1 Day. This comes as a surprise to many who feel that “the issues they have been dealing with for so long, can’t possibly be sorted out in such a short time”. All mediators at Mediate Ireland are trained in advanced, and in some cases unique, techniques in Mediation which accelerate the mediation process.[Read More.....]

Family Mediation – A Better Approach. (Part 1)

Family Mediation processes naturally lend themselves to resolution of the various issues that arise in Separation or Divorce – and/or to these various issues separately, like maintenance, access etc. Family Mediation is not some sort of pseudo-counselling process: it is formal, structured and issues-focused. Family Mediation is fast, effective and cost-efficient. Engaging in a Family Mediation process at an early stage with the parties centrally involved can bring about a result months, if not years, earlier.[Read More.....]

How Professional Mediation Can Help You

Mediation in Ireland has been shown to be the best approach to the resolution of disputes such as, Divorce, Separation, Employment Law, Childcare, Commercial Contracts, Wills and Inheritance. Worldwide it has been shown that the use of Mediators is at least 30% less expensive, 70% faster than Litigation and successful in 80% of Mediation's. The EU Directive on Mediation was enacted into Irish Law in 2010. The government and the judiciary actively … [Read More...]

Family Mediation – Divorce & Seperation

Going through a Separation or a Divorce is one of the most stressful times in any person's life. A Mediator in Family Mediation can help at this time. Mediate Ireland provides mediators nationwide with particular emphasis on Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway & Tipperary. The most sensible approach is to bring in a non-involved third party to Mediate the issues, using our Family Mediation Service. This will diffuse the situation and provide an … [Read More...]

Commercial & Civil Mediation – Business Disputes

Any type of dispute or conflict between companies, sole traders or individuals is ideal for commercial mediation. There are many forms of ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) however Mediation in Ireland has been consistently shown to produce the most successful outcomes. Disputes can be mediated even if a Lawsuit/Litigation has commenced. The quickest,most cost effective & successful approach for business is to bring in a Commercial … [Read More...]

News & Articles on Mediation

Call for governement departments to have ‘mediation officers’ for legal costs

Government urged to examine greater use of mediation facilities. Every Minister should appoint a “delegated person in the department to be a mediation officer to examine the possibility of avoiding these legal costs”. The State is “the greatest contractor of legal services” in the Republic and has a reputation of “rarely settling cases until reaching the steps of the court”. [Read More.....]

Irish High Court Judge calls for “Compulsory Mediation”

Remarking on a high court case involving a public right of way, Mr Justice John MacMenamin said there was “a strong case” for reforming the law concerning the existence of public rights of way and suggested reform should include “compulsory mediation” before any litigation.[Read More.....]

Mediation helps solve workplace bullying

Finland has twice as many cases of workplace bullying as other European countries, and more emphasis is being placed on promoting mediation to reduce the level of harassment and bullying at work. Mediation offers a much better solution and we can certainly learn from our European neighbours in this respect.[Read More.....]

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