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It is the third session. The gap has come down from 9% to 2.5%. Everyone in the room knows roughly where this is going to land. And yet nobody moves. If you work in employee or labour relations, you have sat in that room. You have watched a negotiation that was 80% done stall for three weeks, go to conciliation, pick up a strike notice, and settle in the end at a number that was on the table a month earlier, after everybody had lost a fortnight's production, salaries and a g

The global civil justice system is undergoing a profound paradigm shift. Driven by systemic court backlogs, excessive legal costs, and the evolving needs of commercial clients, jurisdictions worldwide are transitioning from a strictly adversarial default to an integrated framework of "Appropriate" Dispute Resolution (ADR).Lawyers and in-house legal counsel fulfil a crucial role in supporting and architecting the evolution of our legal systems to incorporate the use of mediati

Examining the approach mediators take in RAF rights based matters in South Africa and rights based matters in general. The article examines facilitative and evaluative styles of mediation and looks beyond the binary approaches to mediation.

Overview of the Mandatory Mediation Directive The Judge President of the Gauteng High Court has recently introduced a significant...

A simple guide to the High Court Rule 41A Mediation Process

The best and simple guide to the mediation process

An excellent guide for how to become a mediator in South Africa