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UK (England and Wales) - Commercial Mediation Market growth shoots up by 20%

"The key finding from the 2018 CEDR Mediation Audit is that 12,000 commercial mediations (excluding small claims mediations) were performed in the last 12 months, an increase of 20% on 2016.

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International - Kluwer Mediation Blog – June Digest

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International - OECD publishes 77 comments on transfer pricing guidelines for intragroup services, dispute resolution

"The OECD on June 28 published 77 responses to its request for suggestions on how to improve the OECD transfer pricing guidelines for multinational corporations, with 51Full text >
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International - Nominet unveils .uk dispute resolution statistics

".uk registrar Nominet has seen a total of 712 complaints relating to 783 domains through its dispute resolution service in 2017, according to a report.

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International - Africa now has its own arbitration - will disputes be resolved on the continent?

"London and Paris, both European cities, were the go-to destinations to resolve commercial disputes – outside conventional courts – amongst African firms or shareholders.

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International - Transparency, Legitimacy, and Investor-State Dispute Settlement: What Can We Learn from the Streaming of Hearings?

"Scholars, NGOs, and practitioners have been discussing the legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement (“ISDS”) for years. Much of this debate has focused on the critique that ISDS, usually taking the form of confidential and bind...

UK (Scotland) - The Edinburgh Declaration of International Mediators

“I write this in the aftermath of the really uplifting and wonderfully diverse conference which I had the privilege to host and chair recently in my home city, under the auspices of the Int...

International - Why this years G7 summit needs the art of mediation more than ever before

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International - Encompassing regional variations in dispute resolution

"A recent report has illustrated some key differences between the nations and regions of the world, in how they conceive dispute resolution should evolve, and in turn, pose issues for lawyers and in-house counsel alike as to how to manage them.
International - Litigation funding on the rise

"Litigation funding is an increasingly common feature of commercial dispute resolution. Key players in the funding market are building global capacity and diversifying the range of matters and jurisdictions in which they invest, and it is increasi...