Over the last 30 years, since its early practice in 1989, there has been steady growth in the total number of cases using mediation in the United Kingdom.

An interesting trend is beginning to emerge in relation to decisions over whether to sanction unreasonable refusals to mediate.

For over ten years, CEDR has been sponsoring and organising the annual National Student Negotiation Competition

My periodic trawl through a years-worth of reported civil non-family cases in BAILII has thrown up a selection in which mediation has been mentioned.