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  2020 Election to CMC Board of Directors Voting opens today (16 March) for the 2020 election to the CMC Board of Directors. One place for a registered mediation provider and one place for an individual mediator are open for election to the Board for the three-year period commencing in April 2020. A list of…

One place for a registered mediation provider and one place for an individual mediator are open for election to the Board for the three-year period commencing in April 2020.  The retiring Board members, who are eligible for re-election, are Caroline Sheridan, the Association of Northern Mediators (represented by Stephen Barker) and the Chartered Institute of

    Sir David Foskett, Chair of the CMC, was pleased to be asked to deliver an address to the Standing Conference of Mediation Avocates on 3rd December 2019. The text of his address is below. ‘The Advocate and Compromise’ When I set out on the advocacy road in April 1973, compromise was the furthest

This is the text of Sir David Foskett’s introduction to London Mediators’ Day 2019, which launched Mediation Awareness Week. *** It’s a great pleasure to be here and I am very grateful to John Allison for the invitation to take part in today’s event. When I clicked on the link John sent me to the

Mediation: Meeting the Challenge – CMC Conference 2019 – Sold Out Tickets for the CMC’s Annual Conference are now sold out. If you would like to add your name to the waiting list in case a ticket becomes available, please e-mail events@civilmediation.org.

The CMC was pleased to have the opportunity to respond to the Government’s consultation on the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (‘the Singapore Convention’). The CMC believes that the UK should become a party to the Convention, to support the settlement of international disputes without recourse to litigation. Read the

Last week, Sir David Foskett, CMC Chair, gave a talk to the New Mexico First Judicial Bar Association in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the invitation of New Mexico Supreme Court Justice David Thomson. The text of the lecture is below. ‘DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE 21st CENTURY’ ADDRESS BY SIR DAVID FOSKETT TO THE NEW

The CMC’s Annual Conference takes place on 6th November 2019 at Hallam Conference Centre, Marylebone, London. We aim to bring together 130 mediators for a day of learning, with opportunities to network before and during the event and at a drinks reception at the end of the day. Many mediators are self employed or are

  Together with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL), and the Motor Accidents Solicitors’ Society, the CMC is pleased to announce the launch of the AFM Register of Mediators. This is a not-for-profit register of mediators who provide a mediation service in the personal injury and clinical negligence