Members of the Solent Mediation Group are all highly skilled professionals in their own right, with a wide range of experience in business and legal matters. The highest cost of resolving a commercial dispute is often not what you pay the lawyers. It is more likely to be the diversion of management time, the impact on morale or reputation, and the management time spent on the problem - time which is not spent on running and developing the ongoing business.
Mediation is well suited to the resolution of an almost infinite range of business, personal and commercial disputes. Contract disputes, Neglegence claims, problems concerning supply of goods and services, landlord/tenant and construction disputes are all frequently resolved using mediation. Business and personal relationships can be preserved using mediation because, unlike litigation which only looks backwards and apportions blame, mediation can also be used to look forward.
Virtually any Civil / Commercial dispute can be successfully mediated. For example disputes involving:
- Contracts
- Supply of goods and services
- Negligence
- Professional negligence
- Property
- Building and construction
- Landlord and tenant
- Company (eg ownership, Distribution of Profits, Joint Ventures, future directions etc)
- Partnership
- Licensing and franchising
- Intellectual property
- Personal injury
- Employment and workplace
- Wills and inheritance
- Trusts
- Boundaries and rights of way
- Nuisance and environmental issues
Solent Mediation Group mediators are proficient in handling multi-party commercial disputes, including situations where a wide group of individuals (for example time-share owners or a group of shareholders or other stakeholders) have a common interest in resolving a matter. Mediation is a flexible process and our mediators have the know-how to tailor the mediation process to meet the needs of different types of dispute.
Around 75-80% of mediations resolve in settlement.
