by alternative resolution to conflict | Aug 10, 2023 | contentious probate, executors, mediation, trustees, trusts, Wills and Probate
Mediation, in regard to solving problems, has a strong emphasis on the future. But in practice, people will nearly always have to travel along a road that takes them from the past to the present, to gain an insight into how tomorrow can be different. The origins of...
by alternative resolution to conflict | Jul 6, 2023 | contentious probate, contentious trusts, executors, mediation, trustees, trusts, Wills and Probate
I was listening to a Barclays’ podcast (Word on the Street # 218 – 8.6.23) on the behaviour of investors. Maya Wheland argued that people make their minds up about a situation really quickly, then are reluctant to change. With regard to investors – they...
by alternative resolution to conflict | Jun 29, 2023 | contentious probate, contentious trusts, Lasting Power of Attorney, mediation, Private Client Disputes, trustees, trusts, Wills and Probate
‘Mediation thrives on confidentiality…’ (Freedman & Prigoff 1986) Mediation is confidential, which means that nobody other than the people involved in the mediation should know the content of what’s being discussed. Why is confidentially so important? In a...
by alternative resolution to conflict | Jun 15, 2023 | Lasting Power of Attorney, Private Client Disputes
A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) is a legal agreement between a donor (the person making the LPA) and their nominated attorney. This agreement enables the attorney to act for the donor and make decisions, when the donor can no longer do this for themselves. There...
by alternative resolution to conflict | May 26, 2023 | contentious probate, executors, trustees, Wills and Probate
Mediation, whether wills and probate or any other type of mediation, has four main characteristics: Mediation is voluntary – the parties involved in mediation engage under their own free will. Mediation is self-determined – the mediator brings people together and...
by alternative resolution to conflict | May 10, 2023 | contentious probate, executors, values, Wills and Probate
There’s been a lot of talk about values in the press, on the run up to the King’s Coronation. Will the new monarch lead to a reinstatement of national values, are the old one’s obsolete, has our world changed so much since the coronation of Elizabeth II that we need...
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