Mediation Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78043-792-7
Verlag: Bloomsbury

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

Mediation Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation reveals how to get the best out of mediation. It is a practical, how to guide aimed at those who attend mediations as representatives, clients, experts or mediators.

Things you will learn include: what actually happens in mediations; the essential skills for all representatives; the tricks that mediators play; the things you must and must not do as an advocate; how to prepare effectively for a mediation; and the best ways to negotiate at mediation.

The core of Mediation Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation is civil and commercial mediation, but it also considers family, workplace and community highlighting the ways in which the processes differ.

It contains checklists, flow charts, bullet point summaries, precedents and FAQs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Zivilprozessrecht Streitschlichtung, Mediation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
PART A: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIATION ADVOCACY AND THE MEDIATION PROCESS

Chapter 1 Introduction to ADR

Chapter 2 What is Mediation?

Chapter 3 Mediators - Who Are They?

Chapter 4 Mediation Styles: What Mediators Do and Why

Chapter 5 What Does The Client Want?

Chapter 6 What is Mediation Advocacy?

Chapter 7 Risk/Benefit Assessment

Chapter 8 When and Where to Hold a Mediation: Is It Important?
PART B: THE MEDIATION

Chapter 9 Mediation Process: Mediators' Tricks

Chapter 10 The Stages of the Mediation Days

Chapter 11 Physical Preparation

Chapter 12 Legal Issues

Chapter 13 The Mediation Agreement

Chapter 14 Settlement Agreement

Chapter 15 After the Mediation

PART C: MEDIATION ADVOCACY SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES

Chapter 16 Negotiation Fast Track Tactics

Chapter 17 What Type of Mediator Are You?

Chapter 18 Mind Traps Alert

PART D: SELF-ADVOCACY: REPRESENTING YOURSELF

Chapter 19 Self-Advocacy

PART E: CONCLUSION

Chapter 20 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Walker, Stephen
Stephen Walker is an independent mediator. He practises as a civil and commercial mediator and has conducted over 450 civil and commercial mediations. He has also undertaken specialised training in family and workplace mediation, advanced training with MATA and training to become dual certified in the USA through INADR.

Stephen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators as well as a visiting lecturer in mediation at Kings College London and Oxford Brookes University.

He is ranked in the top 40 UK mediators by both Chambers and Partners 2017 and Legal 500 2017
and accredited by the IMI.

He is the author of four mediation books published by Bloomsbury Professional, Mediation Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation, Setting Up in Business as a Mediator, Mediation: An A-Z Guide and FAQs for Mediators.

Stephen Walker practises as a civil and commercial mediator and has conducted over 300 civil and commercial mediations. He has also undertaken specialised training in family and workplace mediation, advanced training with MATA and training to become dual certified in the USA through INADR. Stephen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators as well as a visiting lecturer in mediation at Kings College London and Oxford Brookes University.