CEDR (the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) publishes a bi-annual report on the state of UK Civil and Commercial Mediation - and it makes good reading.
The report showed that settlement at or soon after a mediation increased to a fantastic 93% - that is a sensational contribution towards saving time and money that would otherwise have been sent on fighting out the dispute through to trial. CEDR in fact estimates that the settled disputes saved as much as £4.6 billion. As you can imagine of a 78-year-old, Joe Biden has been round the block a few times. Amazingly he first held political office in 1970, whilst the Vietnam War and the Apollo space program were both still underway. Since then he has had a varied and very busy political career leading up to taking the oath of office as President earlier this year.
Following the recent return to fighting in the Middle east, Biden is now wrestling with a long term issue of how to try to help bring peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and history says the odds are stacked against anyone trying to resolve the 70 year old dispute. But Biden, should he choose to be involved, may have a better chance than others, not least as he and his team have previous experience of the challenges from their years within the Obama administration. |
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AuthorRichard Marshall is an Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator with over 25 years experience as a Litigation Solicitor, as well as being a qualified Solicitor-Advocate. He is the founder of Striving to Settle, through which he works as a mediator and provides negotiation training. www.strivingtosettle.co.uk Archives
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