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The vast majority of disputes involving court proceedings are expensive, polarising, complex, time consuming, resource draining and frightening experiences for everyone but the lawyers! The old adage that ‘only the lawyers win’ can often apply. Hogarth’s cartoon picturing a litigation cow with the claimant pulling on the horns the defendant tugging way at the tail and the lawyers milking from underneath springs painfully to mind! DWT Legal’s contentious team recommends parties to disputes to try to resolve their issues by medaition in every appropriate case and at the earliest opportunity. Mediation involves a structured resolution of disputes by one or more professional mediators acting as independent and impartial facilitators. They are highly trained and skilled in encouraging and enabling parties to achieve win-win’ solutions. Statistics suggest that, generally speaking, over 85% of mediated disputes are partially or wholly resolved on the day or within two weeks of the mediation. However, over the course of the last 15 years our in-house mediation specialists have achieved over 95% success rates in the substantial numbers of mediations they have conducted. They typically cost a fraction of fully litigated disputes, can take weeks or even days to arrange and are informal and are designed to produce constructive not destructive outcomes. Regardless of the stage your dispute may have reached please ask us for more details of how one of our specialist mediators can help. If you would like to discuss your case in this context with one of our advisors, please contact Rob Mason, head of our litigation team either by telephone on 01562 514 873 or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . |