Track record

Improving the UK Civil Justice System

• In addition to the Court of Appeal Scheme and regular High Court and Commercial Court referrals, CEDR is actively involved in court-referred mediation schemes in Birmingham, Cardiff, Central London, Exeter and Guildford.
• We are a national provider to the National Mediation Helpline, operated on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.
• Building upon the success of the Judges' Forum in recent years, as well as our involvement in the three-year judicial education programme for the Judicial Studies Board, we have provided mediation training to judges.
• CEDR produced an educational video on mediation and has published two editions of its 'Court referred ADR: a guide for the judiciary'.
• We submitted a report to Mr Justice Colman's Commercial Court working group on court-ordered mediation and later a report to the Court of Appeal prior to the Halsey judgment.

Leading global development

Europe

• Following their Green Paper in 2002, the European Commission launched an EU Code of Conduct for Mediation and a Draft Directive developed by a drafting committee on which CEDR was represented.
• The first pan-European ADR research project, conducted by CEDR in conjunction with leading law firm CMS, culminated in the launch of a joint publication 'The EU Mediation Atlas: Practice and Regulation'.
• CEDR successfully introduced mediation into the Slovak civil justice system.
• We designed and established an extra judicial system for resolving welfare disputes in Samara, Russia.
• We have worked in Kazakhstan in the development of consumer-orientated mediation centres.
• We trained local commercial mediators in Advanced Mediation Practice in Bosnia and we regularly deliver Mediator Skills Training in Ireland.
• CEDR worked with the European Patent Office to run a Study Tour for Russian and Ukrainian federal judges.
• We developed a mediation pilot in the Commercial Court, Croatia.

Africa

• CEDR undertook the first internationally accredited mediator skills training in Nigeria and continues to run courses there.
• We have contributed to the initiation of commercial mediation in South Africa through our consultancy work and our Mediator Skills Training.
• Between 2004 and 2007, we contributed various workstreams to a project entitled "Strengthening Morocco's Judicial and Administrative Reforms" aimed at introducing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms in Morocco.

• We launched a landmark mediation centre alliance with the CCPIT to help European and Chinese businesses resolve disputes.
• We worked with the World Bank to professionalise mediation in Pakistan.

The Americas

• CEDR participated in the MEDAL International Mediation Event in New York.
• We are partner with JAMS - The Resolution Experts in the United States on transatlantic disputes and interventions.

In addition, in the last year alone, CEDR has delivered ADR workshops to or within over 17 different countries.

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