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.

The abiding value of the common law has always been in its functioning as a flexible tool for legal development, with principles being applied to new sets of facts, sometimes leading to new law without the need for the precision of statutory language or the necessary investment of Parliamentary time

Forecasting of case outcomes by lawyers is a key part of mediation. Are we going to win our legal case?