Mediation has been agreed upon to try and resolve the ongoing conflict and legal battle between French beauty group L’Oreal and EBay.
The French beauty group is making a legal claim against EBay, the online auctioneer, for allowing the promotion of counterfeit goods using the L’Oreal name. Earlier this week, a court in Paris announced that it had invited them to and both parties had accepted to enter into a legal mediation process.
This is a high profile case and one which may have repercussions in the future. The French courts ruled against EBay following the case lodged by LVMH and Hermes. EBay is purely a retailer, however, the courts rules the host could have done more to prevent counterfeit goods being sold and as the retailer should bear some limited responsibility.
Mediation in this instance is being used to try to reach a mutually satisfactory resolution or agreement for longer term, efficient measures to combat the sale of counterfeit goods in the future.
With the ever growing popularity of the mediation process in many cases, we expect there to be more and more news of mediation being used in high profile cases such as this.
In the Mirror earlier this month, there was an article featuring a mother and daughter, who had partaken in a pilot mediation scheme called the Time Out project.
The scheme was designed to help families and was launched in Lambeth, South London. In the first twelve months, the Time Out project showed a 91 per cent success rate, reconciling 91 per cent of families referred to them.
This project actually allows troubled teens to stay in a home for up to six weeks, the only requirement being that they and their family take part in mediation to help resolve their problems.
Mediation is a neutral way (more…)
In the Yorkshire town of Bradford, secondary schools are to have police officers appointed to visit the schools regularly to help educate pupils at an early age about the pitfalls of crime and to help with day to day welfare problems. The scheme is designed to help tackle common school issues such as weapons awareness, truancy and other problems.
This new scheme in Bradford is a partnership between several agencies including Education Bradford and West Yorkshire Police and is funded by the police and Education Bradford. It will also help to ensure that mediation techniques are (more…)
According to experts, the dismal picture of the forthcoming financial year as depicted by the Chancellor in this year’s Budget is likely to lead to a large increase in litigation and subsequently, mediation too.
When financial pressure is on, businesses need to recoup losses as quickly as possible and this is likely to mean an increase in the number of disputes. However, the expense and time involved in going to court is not always the best way either to resolve a dispute or to continue a business relationship.
An alternative resolution for disputes that is being commonly used is mediation. A (more…)
Despite its growing popularity in recent years, mediation is still a relatively unheard term for many people who, although they may by now have heard the term, still remain unaware of what the term means and what mediation does.
It helps raise awareness therefore when respected spokespersons promote the use and benefits of mediation. One mediation expert in the Isle of Man has been helping raise awareness in Sheffield by giving a talk about how mediation can save businesses money.
Using mediation services can help companies to save estimated millions of (more…)
Following yesterday’s article about actor Tim Allen being referred to mediation, it seems another television actor Jeremy Piven is also being referred to mediation talks in order to settle a dispute between himself and the producers of Speed-the-Plow Broadway play over his departure from the show.
A mediator is set to mediate between the two parties in June after a grievance hearing failed to settle matters last month.
43 year old Jeremy Piven, star of Entourage, left the show in December as he claimed he was suffering from mercury poisoning.
Both Mr Piven and the producers have made (more…)
Mediation is being used today in all sorts of cases and hit the headlines recently as a judge referred a case involving Tim Allen to mediation.
The lawsuit alleges that 55 year old actor Mr Allen stole the idea for Wild Hogs, the successful 2007 comedy movie that also starred John Travolta, William H Macy, Martin Lawrence (more…)
The new Acas Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures is due to be brought into force in April this year and with it comes a lot more focus on using mediation to resolve matters of dispute. This means we are likely to see much more need for mediation in the future in all areas of business, as well as family matters.
Mediation has been used in the workplace more and more often (more…)
During a recession, many people are affected in a negative way. Unemployment is rife with up to two million people currently out of work, and even those who are lucky enough to still have a job probably have a family member who is out of work and are worried about their own job. Money worries are high and as a result, stressed out couples are likely to take it out on each other and on those around them. With little money to spare, it can be difficult to spend quality time together too.
As a result, mediation is in great demand. Although (more…)
A New York high school has been able to co-ordinate over 200 peer mediations to help students resolve their issues.
Retired police detective, Mary Ann McGovern, has been helping Schenectady High School through the Center for Community Justice’s peer mediation plan for the last twelve months.
McGovern said:
“Peer mediators are a group of trained, dedicated students who help their fellow classmates resolve their own issues. We do not give advice or judge. We just guide the mediation process.”
The mediation program now covers all three middle schools. One year ago, they incorporated the ‘incident reduction plan’ because the school was rated the 16th most violent school in the state.
There are now 40 trained mediators, trained in mediation techniques and communication. Trained mediators sign an oath of confidentiality and receive training before helping in mediation cases and at least two mediators handle each case and are monitored during the mediation.
McGovern added:
“The program is a valuable tool for crisis intervention. Mediation is an alternative way to resolve conflicts, giving students a forum to have their voices heard and a chance to own and resolve issues that negatively affect them.”
Mediation only guides conversation and facilitates negotiation to help people reach a resolution in a quick and peaceful manner, and mediation has become popular in recent years in all sorts of cases.