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- Share your (anonymous) views and thoughts on family arbitration News, 19/05/2015, free
- Tender document published to implement recommendations by the Mediation Task Force News, 28/08/2014, free
- Initiative announced in response to recommendations of the Mediation Task Force. News, 21/08/2014, free
- Task Force set up to examine drop in MIAMS referrals publishes its report. News, 04/07/2014, free
- Brings specified sections of the Act into force on 22 April News, 25/03/2014, free
- In these long running financial proceedings, the parties had agreed to attempt mediation, and the wife undertook not to make any further statutory demand prior to the conclusion of the mediation. The wife maintained that it was an implied term of the agreement that the husband would pay the rent on a substitute property, and he had breached this implied term. She subsequently issued an application for general enforcement under FPR 2010 rule 33.3(2)(b) for a sum of nearly £2m. The husband argued that the wife was debarred from proceeding to enforce by virtue of the agreement to mediate. The judge ruled that the agreement could not be given effect so as to prevent the wife from applying for enforcement until and unless mediation has taken place. A bar of that nature would operate as a restriction on the right to apply to the court. The most that could be done in balancing the obligation to mediate under the agreement and the right of access to justice was for an adjournment to be ordered for a specified period to give the parties a final opportunity to engage in ADR and an adjournment was made for 8 weeks. Judgment, 05/03/2014, free
- Decision of the President making it clear that consent orders following an arbitral award under the IFLA scheme should be approved by the court. The President said 'Where the parties have bound themselves, as by signing a Form ARB1, to accept an arbitral award of the kind provided for by the IFLA Scheme, this generates, as it seems to me, a single magnetic factor of determinative importance.' The President concluded the judgment with a call to the FPR Committee to look at the Rules to support the necessary procedural adaptation in the light of alternative forms of dispute resolution. Judgment, 15/01/2014, free
- Organisation esimates that 115,000 people could save money if they knew more the alternatives to court. News, 25/11/2013, free
- News, 05/04/2013, free
- Judgment, 30/01/2013, free