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Mediation is voluntary, so you will need the agreement of the other party to your dispute to mediate.

Don't despair, you may not agree on your dispute, but as Mr Justice Lightman has said, where mediation is available, "no sane or conscientious litigators or party will lightly reject it"! And if they don't agree now, chances are that their lawyers or a judge may tell them to think again before too long (though you may both have wasted a lot of money on legal costs in the mean time).

Simply suggest Mediation, give them the details of this web site, and they can always give us a call if they have any questions. Click here to go to the Download page for some wording you might want to use to suggest Mediation. Once you're both agreed that you want us to mediate your dispute, we'll take it from there.