Dear ADRIC Clients, Committees, Partners and Service Providers, It is with a mix of sadness and gratitude that the Board of Directors announces Janet McKay`s departure as Executive Director of The ADR Institute of Canada, effective November 1st, 2021. Janet has played a critical role in the development and success of the organization, and while […]

LAW https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/jr-bill-boosts-online-courts-agenda/5109311.article?utm_source=gazette_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Solicitor+judge+crisis+%7c+HMCTS+urged+to+share+more+data+%7c+Virtual+interviews_07%2f22%2f2021 JR bill boosts online courts agenda By Michael Cross21 July 2021   Powers to require certain types of civil proceedings to commence in online courts would be created under a little-noticed Chapter 2 of the Judicial Review and Courts Bill introduced to parliament by the lord chancellor today. The measures appear to revive those lost when […]

The Second Edition of Online Dispute Resolution – Theory and Practice has been published. Graham Ross, of the UK, one of the Pioneers of ODR states in a post: For those of my colleagues in mediation and arbitration who are still labouring under the misapprehension that using Zoom is all you need to know about […]

The Department of Justice Canada continues to develop online training courses, professional training materials and Public Legal Education and Information resources on the recent amendments to federal family law legislation.  More… Le ministère de la Justice Canada continue d’élaborer des cours de formation en ligne, du matériel de formation professionnelle et des ressources de vulgarisation […]

The Neighbourhood Group (formerly St. Stephen’s Community House) wants to hear from people involved with Community Mediation across Canada. We’d like to hold a nation-wide meeting to compare our experiences and explore how we can better support each other. The National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) in the United States is also interested in connecting […]

LOS ANGELES – No one is as real as Ice-T and his latest series “The Mediator” shows just how real the legendary rapper and actor can get when it comes to a feud. The new series will see the Grammy Award-winning artist settling various disputes between two feuding parties. The half-hour legal series will get a limited […]

Virtual Forum on Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) March 1-2, 2021 10am-1pm & 4pm-7pm (US) EST Join all sessions at http://odr.info/zoom passcode workitout   Day 1: AI and ODR (March 1, 2021)  Part 1 10:00am – 10:10am Forum Welcome + Recorded Sessions Introduction Ethan Katsh, Director, NCTDR   10:10am – 10:30am  Celebration of new edition of […]

This book is the outcome of two scientific events on technocriticism of technoproducts and on providing a panorama of the legal implications of artificial intelligence, themes sharing the goal of identifying, from a diachronic perspective, the socio-legal consequences of technologies and the foundations of their pre-eminence in public discourse. These two aspects of technology are […]

Mirèze Philippe is Special Counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration that she has joined in 1984.  She is a Fellow at the National Centre for Technology and Dispute Resolution (NCTDR).   She writes, “I would like to share with you the news about a book published by Kluwer on “Access to Justice in […]

To register: https://cyberspace.muni.cz/programme/special-track-online-dispute-resolution-odr ODR Special Track SPECIAL TRACK: Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Available presentations and instructions how to submit questions or discussion topics in advance (in file “- PLEASE NOTE – DO YOU HAVE A TOPIC FOR ONLINE DISCUSSION RESERVE IT IN ADVANCE!” ) are HERE.  Organized by Masaryk University and PRK Partners law firm With kind […]