I have previously posted about whether defendant insurance lawyers are trying to defeat mediation. This followed a government report which alleged that they were trying to defeat the use of mediation.
In this weeks' Law Society Gazette, Terry Renouf, national senior partner of Berrymans Lace Mawer issues his response.
As he writes:
"Mediation works. This is the unequivocal message from this firm, from other defendant practitioners, and from our insurer clients.
Our collective experience is that the overwhelming majority of mediated cases do settle. It is therefore with some disappointment that I read the article suggesting defendant personal injury lawyers are to blame for ‘defeating mediation’, based on research carried out for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) by Professor Dame Hazel Genn (see [2007] Gazette, 31 May, 1)."
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