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		<title>The Carrot Beats The Stick (the tale of two beers and a litigation-busting libation&#8230;.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government has recently decided to introduce automatic referral to a mediator of all claims below the current small claims limit of £5,000. One could be mistaken for thinking that this is the thin end of the wedge towards compulsory mediation, but the Government has made clear that this is not the case. This is welcome clarification. Where there is compulsory mediation, numbers rise, but that is about the only positive. Settlement rates and respect for the process usually decline. People don’t like being forced down a path other than one they have chosen, particularly at the outset of a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://jonlang.com/2012/04/17/the-carrot-beats-the-stick-the-tale-of-two-beers-and-a-litigation-busting-libation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Ramsay&#8217;s Family Business Feud: Bring in the Mediators</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 19:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Lang, The Times Online, 26 May 2011. Relatives in dispute over their family firm can find innovative and workable solutions without going to court The feud between Gordon Ramsay and his wife’s family took another unlikely twist this month when his mother-in-law, brother-in-law and nephew all announced their intention to sue him at an employment tribunal for wrongful dismissal. Strip away the celebrity varnish and Gordon Ramsay Holdings is merely going through what scores of family businesses go through each year: a collapse into a heap of mutual recriminations. It is often said that commercial disputes are always about &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://jonlang.com/2011/05/26/gordon-ramsays-family-feud/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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