Mediator
Mediator@lloydexpert.co.uk
Professional qualified mediation services for corporate and civil matters
The role of the neutral — the mediator — is to help those involved sort out their issues and arrive at a consensus. That might involve helping parties to finalise an agreement, resolve a dispute, develop effective communications, build or improve relationships, or all these things. Mediators do not take sides. Mediators are impartial.
Mediation is a confidential process where what was discussed or agreed in private is not disclosed to others without everyone's agreement. Where mediation is used to try to avoid or resolve a dispute, and if the mediation does not result in an agreement, the parties can still go to court. Details about what went on at the mediation will not be disclosed or used at a court hearing. Mediators uphold confidentiality.
Usually parties share the task of selecting a mediator and the cost of the mediation.
Benefits of mediation
- cheaper and faster than other forms of dispute resolution, such as litigation
- helps to preserve and improve relationships between parties
- shows respect and value for the people involved in a conflict
- helps people get to and resolve the core of a problem
- can transform situations for better
- produces agreements that parties want to uphold
Mediator@lloydexpert.co.uk
Confidential
The fundamental principle of mediation, and also its primary advantage, is that it is a confidential process. Confidential that it is taking place, confidential in what is said and done in the mediation and confidential in its outcome. Unless the parties agree otherwise.
This gives the parties the confidence that whatever is said and done, whatever unsuccessful offers are made to settle, none of it can be shared outside the mediation group unless agreed. Of course, when a deal is done, others may need to be informed so that the necessary payments and/or actions can be taken, but the overriding principle is that it is a confidential process; so if the mediation does not settle, whatever is said and done in the mediation cannot be repeated in court.
Voluntary
In order for mediation to work it is important that all parties agree to take part. Although the process is directed and facilitated by the mediator it is the parties who control the outcome and any agreement. In civil commercial mediation any agreement is legally binding whereas in workplace and community the agreement is not legally binding but made in good faith.
Mediator@lloydexpert.co.uk
Fixed Fee Scheme Schedule in line with the Civil Mediation Council applies, https://civilmediation.org/fixed-fee-scheme/