In an article discussing remote mediation, Paul Johnson explains why it is "A Positive Decision to Mediate". The article was prompted by two recent decisions:  DSN v Blackpool Football Club Ltd [2020] EWHC 610 (QB) and Wales t/a Selective Investment Services v CBRE Management Services & Anor [2020] 4 WLUK 355 and the defendant's refusal to mediate.

Paul explains that although a party has a fundamental right to be heard at trial, there is, however, a variety of positive rationale to mediate, and too often we find reasons not to do something to the detriment of reasons to do something.

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