As a Barrister he can provide CSNA members with legal advice and legal opinion on any matter that may arise in their business, be it a dispute between landlord and tenant, employer and employee, business and business or business and service provider among any other personal issues that may arise.
What is Mediation?
- Mediation is an international recognised alternative dispute resolution process
- Mediation can resolve any civil dispute a court can
- Mediation is fast, cost effective, informal and confidential
- It is informal and flexible and allows for creative solutions that no court can do
- In Mediation control remain with the parties and they decide their own settlement terms.
What are the benefits of mediation for CSNA members?
- Mediation can resolve disputes between landlords and tenants
- Mediation maintains business relationships vs. Court where business relationship are destroyed
- Mediation resolves relationship breakdowns, personality clashes, communication problems, bullying, harassment and discipline issues in the work place
- Mediation nips conflict in the bud and it can be resolved in a matter of weeks vs. Court where a case can take 3 years to be resolved
- Drawn out conflict affects business and turnover
- Time spent thinking of the case is time not spent thinking about the business
- Mediation can also resolve any dispute between any service provider or professional concerning the quality of the service
- Do not allow conflict fester, deal with it early!
What are the benefits of mediation for CSNA members?
- Justice Fidelma Macken a Supreme Court Judge made the comment that mediation is a “no-brainer” for business
- Costs for a €200,000 claim in Court run to over €50,000 compared to mediation at a fraction of the cost
- She said “Anything that can be done to prevent people spending time away from their business at the moment needs to be taken seriously”
60% and 70% of cases coming before the commercial court could be resolved successfully through mediation. Mediation is cheaper, quicker, and provided more satisfactory resolutions because the outcomes were agreed by the parties themselves rather than being imposed by a judge
- The costs of mediation are so much less; the expenditure of time is so much less. The process is so flexible. It’s owned and run by the parties to it, and it can produce results which no court or no arbitrator can produce.