Construction Focus: An unreasonable refusal

John Starr considers a case where no costs sanctions were imposed despite an unreasonable refusal to mediate ‘In this case, the judge came to the conclusion that the fair and just outcome should be that neither party’s conduct should be taken into account to modify what would otherwise be the general rule on costs.’ In …
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Construction Focus: Mediation retains its appeal

John Starr analyses the Court of Appeal’s approach to mediation and a new Court-run scheme ‘CAMS has been running for a number of years and has consisted of the court writing to the parties to tell them about mediation and the Mediation Scheme run by the Court of Appeal.’ For some years now, the Court …
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