Recently, Core’s teams have been hard at work in many settings.

In the past week, Hugh Donald conducted 2 difficult workplace related mediations over 3 days, Sir David Edward concluded a professional negligence mediation, Pamela Lyall helped parties resolve an anxious personal injury claim, while  Charlie Woods and John Sturrock handled a multi-million pound commercial mediation. 

In addition,  John Sturrock undertook facilitation of the business/government initiative, the 2020 Climate Change Delivery Group - and Pam and Charlie ran a one day mediation and conflict management course for a major Scottish utility.

On top of this, the Core office is working furiously to promote the special Julie Macfarlane dinner and Master Class in June and preparing for the three days of the assessment stage of the Church of Scotland’s ground-breaking bespoke mediation course, while handling several new mediation inquiries including one or two major matters. 

We brought at least two of the mediation pilot cases in the planning field closer to fruition in the project we are conducting on behalf of the Scottish Government (and had a key article on this topic published in Scottish Planner – 'Mediation Makes the Difference'). We are also preparing for next week’s advocacy course for the Children’s Reporters, led by Hugh Olson, which we are now in the 10th year of delivering.

Feedback from our recent flagship  mediation course is really outstanding, numbers for the assessment stage for that have grown this week and the autumn course is already filling.