Are you ready to tackle conflicts and build bridges or perhaps settle a costly and acrimonious litigation?
Tuesday 7 October | 9:30am - 1pm | Weightmans, No. 1, Spinningfields, Hardman Square, Manchester M3 3EB
We are hosting an in-person mock mediation at our Manchester office to showcase how the process works, how it offers advantages over negotiations which do not involve a mediator and why you should consider mediation as a mechanism for bringing your dispute to an end.
Disputes whether they are internal, whilst the employment is continuing, or whether litigation has commenced are time consuming, expensive and disruptive. What’s worse, the outcome is uncertain – all the effort put into fighting your case can come to nothing and, whilst the dispute is running its course, you may find that you or your business are prevented from being able to plan for the future.
Sejal Raja, head of employment in London and Andrew Cromby, head of commercial disputes in London, invite you to attend our mock mediation which provides an insight as to how the process works and the advantages of mediation.
This event will be of interest to in-house lawyers, HR professionals, business owners and directors, professional partnerships and families in conflict - anyone who finds themselves involved in disputes.
In most cases an early resolution of the dispute or settlement, on terms agreeable to both parties, makes huge commercial (and emotional) sense.
Mediation, an increasingly popular way to facilitate settlement with the involvement of a neutral mediator, trained to listen and understand the parties’ perspectives and needs and to actively bring the parties together to resolve their differences – and at a fraction of the cost of the full process of running a dispute. Mediation has been shown to promote settlement in between 80 to 90 % of cases and the trend in the Courts is increasingly to encourage or require mediation to take place at an early stage.
