The publication of the long-awaited final report of the Civil Justice Council’s ADR Working Group has once again focused attention on whether ADR should be mandatory.

Aristotle once said that “Education is an ornament in Prosperity and a Refuge in Adversity”. It is therefore crucial that professionals of dispute resolution continuously educate themselves

Identifying the seat of arbitration, the home legal system, is one of the most important features of an arbitration clause, writes Professor Janet Walker C.Arb.

Dispute finance, in its modern form, originated in Australia in the mid-1990s