DR Corner: Mediation in the Wake of WL v HL – Low-Hanging Fruit or Golden Opportunity?
Traditional perceptions of mediation
‘[M]ediated cases are self-evidently the easiest to settle; the low fruit of the dispute resolution world. Quite rightly this will always remain so. But my nagging concern about the mediation process remains; that one side often has the upper negotiating hand either psychologically or practically.