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About mediation

If appropriate to your case, mediation could be suggested to try and resolve the matter amicably.

Mediation involves bringing the parties of a dispute together and helping them to reach agreement. It's a voluntary process and issues discussed during mediation are confidential. Parties are free to say things that they would not be able to say in court and can do so in a relatively safe environment.

In mediation, our partner's appointed mediator will set out your concerns, explain how those concerns arose and suggest steps that may lead to an amicable resolution.

Mediation can allow parties to achieve resolutions that are beyond a court’s power to award and while mediation does not aim to produce winners and losers, more often than not, it's substantially better, less expensive and less stressful, than litigation.

About representation

Employee members can benefit from our free representation service provided by our trade union partner Prospect. Representation is primarily to help resolve issues that arise in the workplace.

Our partner Prospect can help you with pre and post disciplinary and grievance meeting advice, accompaniment to disciplinary hearings, and support at employment tribunals. In the case of employment tribunals, our partner will seek settlement, where reasonably possible, prior to tribunal.

Thorough case preparation, careful drafting of tribunal claim forms and witness statements will maximise the chance that the case is settled at the earliest stage possible. If the case cannot be settled reasonably, our appointed partner will see the case through to a tribunal hearing.