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A saving too far for the MoJ?

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Date:16 JUN 2014
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Marc Lopatin
Mediator

Readers of this blog will know we campaign for family mediation to be better marketed and supported if it’s ever going to benefit larger numbers of separating families.

For us - at least - this means mediation being promoted and supported by commercially aligned family lawyers. It’s about breaking open the market for full service dispute resolution that most people can afford.

We’re currently piloting our approach with 50 law firms in four UK locations and hope to reach proof of concept by Spring 2015. In the meantime we’d like to share some evidence about how not to build a market for family mediation. As ever that evidence is provided by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

We already know that mediation starts across the UK have fallen by an average of 40%...

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