James Gibbons recently wrote an article for Three Stone Mediation highlighting the increasing preference for spoken engagement and mediation over adversarial correspondence in legal disputes.

Drawing on examples from Alpha Schools (Holdings) Ltd v Signal Capital Partners [2024] EWHC 2862 (Ch) and Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 1416, James says  “Whether in litigation, arbitration, mediation or other non-court dispute resolution processes, the aim of the lawyer should be, even in the most complex cases, by careful analysis of the very few documents and points of law that matter, to identify at an early stage the single or very few real points.”

You can read the full article on our Three Stone Mediation website here.

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