These excerpts are taken from Family Arbitration: Perspectives of a Practitioner and Trainer, written by Richard W. Shields. This content will be part of the upcoming 40-Hour Family Arbitration Law & Skills training. Learn more here. Before the Hearing – Appointing the Arbitrator Under section 58(d) of the Arbitration Act, any arbitrator who conducts a family arbitration must have received training, approved by the Attorney General. …
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Category Archives: Family Arbitration
Excerpts from Family Arbitration: Perspectives of a Practitioner and Trainer – Part 3 of 3
Excerpts from Family Arbitration: Perspectives of a Practitioner and Trainer – Part 2 of 3
These excerpts are taken from Family Arbitration: Perspectives of a Practitioner and Trainer, written by Richard W. Shields. This content will be part of the upcoming 40-Hour Family Arbitration Law & Skills training. Learn more here. The Arbitrator The roles of the arbitrator in an arbitration vary depending upon whether the parties choose to proceed with a hearing. In any arbitration, there …
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Excerpts from Family Arbitration: Perspectives of a Practitioner and Trainer – Part 1 of 3
These excerpts are taken from Family Arbitration: Perspectives of a Practitioner and Trainer, written by Richard W. Shields. This content will be part of the upcoming 40-Hour Family Arbitration Law & Skills training. Learn more here. The Nature of Arbitration Arbitration is a voluntary dispute resolution process in which a neutral third party intervenes to provide a final and binding decision on the issues in …
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Family Arbitration: Exploring Your Options in Dispute Resolution
Family arbitration is a very different process from mediation, and yet they are often confused. Arbitration is a process whereby the parties present their version of the story before a privately-retained arbitrator, often a senior family lawyer, who hears the evidence, applies the law and makes a binding decision. Family arbitration is therefore, more like court than it is like …
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Best Practices for Screening in Family Mediation-Arbitration
Best practices for screening family mediation and arbitration cases for power imbalances and domestic violence. MORE
Coach your Client to be a Better Negotiator: Tips for Negotiating Effectively
ADR professionals are, by definition, skilled negotiators. What attitudes, skills, and strategies do we already have to help coach our clients to achieve the best possible outcomes? 10 Coaching Tips for Clients 1. Our clients all come to us from a place of fear. They fear loss: of what they want or need, of a relationship, of control, or of …
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Gender in Negotiation
In light of International Women’s Day being this week, here is an article by Deborah Kolb reviewing the role gender plays in negotiation. After many years of indifference, the study of gender is now an important area of scholarship in negotiation. At the same time as interest has grown, so too have the perspectives on gender and negotiation evolved. …
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Reflections on Teaching ADR in Grenada – Part 2
Our teaching team Nicole Stewart Kamanga ,Liz Waisberg along with Elizabeth Hyde and Joel Skapinker are in Grenada this week. They are delivering training to 35 community leaders as part of the IMPACT Justice Project. See our previous blog for more information about this exciting project. _______________ Another perfect weather day! As our Group’s skills continue to build, today they worked …
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