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Mediation and ADR: What the Other Side Is Thinking and Reading About - Tim Wallis, Trust Mediation Ltd

19/10/12. Love it or loathe it, the role of mediation continues to increase. The judiciary continues to encourage parties to mediate and the case law on costs sanctions gives a powerful lever to anyone who wants to ensure that the others side takes mediation seriously.Myy role as a personal injury mediator allows me to have a foot in each of the “camps” in the personal injury sector, and I thought it would be interesting to looks at what the insurers that personal injury practitioners deal with are thinking and reading about mediation.

Insurers are making greater use of mediation. CEDR’s “Fifth Mediation Audit” reported that 15% more cases had been mediated in 2011 than the previous year and that 20% of cases involved an insurance...

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