Make talk not war
13 September 2012
Legal column
Mediation and dispute resolution are not soft options but a good way to reduce the pain of a commercial dispute. What is the case for diplomacy over litigation?
The marvellous thing about statistics is that they sound very different, depending on whether you are reading an article or writing it. From my perspective, the following stats prove that the benefits of my preferred option for resolving disputes – mediation – are absolutely incontrovertible.
From your perspective, the stats will perhaps be more worrying, if...