Mediation

04 March 2022

When What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay There: Two Recent Court Decisions About Mediation Confidentiality May Surprise You

March 4, 2022
Author: eggsdev
Occasionally, and with a certain audience, I will explain mediation confidentiality to some (but not all) mediation participants by making reference to the advertising slogan—“what happens here, stays here”—put out by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority in 2003 and their Visit Las Vegas TV commercials (or, the less-than-mediocre romcom “What Happens in Vegas”,
20 December 2021

2021: The Year in ADR – Noteworthy Court Decisions About Not Going to Court

December 20, 2021
Author: eggsdev
As much as Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”)—including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and med-arb—is about avoiding court, ultimately, it’s the courts that may decide to hear your case, or some part of it—even though you and/or your opponent agreed otherwise. So, here are new and noteworthy Ontario and Supreme Court of Canada decisions about making mediation public,