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Mediation Matters: Referral sources to mediation have flipped on their head
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Family Law has previously
reported a rise in the number of people coming through the doors of National Family Mediation’s services. Now some fascinating new figures illustrate how much the
route people now take to reach those doors in the first place is changing – with implications for mediators and solicitors alike.
The referral process has been flipped on its head since LASPO. Along with the rise in LIPs more and more separating people are now self-researching their options before making any commitments whether that’s to lawyers mediators or simply going it alone in court.
Here’s what our data tells us. In the first 6 months of 2013 just 19 per cent of referrals to our mediators came from non-solicitor sources. (The corresponding 2012 figure had been lower still at only 9.6 per cent.) The large majority of the 81 per cent of solicitor referrals we had from January to June 2013 were connected to a...
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