FAQs

A: Yes, mediation is absolutely confidential. All notes taken during the mediation are destroyed at the conclusion of the session. Nothing discussed during mediation can be used in court.

A: Identify and document the issue you want to be discussed and resolved. Consider your underlying concerns in relation to each issue. Consider as many options as you can that you think are viable to resolve each issue.

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After both parties have arrived, your mediator welcomes you and explains the role of the mediator, the way mediation works, how it will run and the rules to be observed for a successful outcome.

Mediation can occur as a “round table” or where participants are in separate rooms. If the mediation is being conducted online, the parties can be onscreen together or in separate virtual rooms.

The mediation commences with each person, in turn, describing the issues to be resolved from their particular point of view. During the discussion of the issues, an agenda is created (a list of the issues of both parties that sets the boundaries of the mediation). From the agreed and prioritised list each item is discussed with each person having input into the options for resolution.

In mediations, it’s common for the parties to go into separate rooms and have the opportunity to speak privately with the mediators to evaluate how things are going and to consider and discuss any further options. These are called “private sessions”. Each party is given the same amount of time privately with the mediator, and each private session is confidential. After private sessions conclude, the parties come back into the main room to continue the mediation. If the mediation is being conducted with the parties in separate rooms, the mediator will pass offers/suggestions between the parties.

If agreement is reached in part of full, the parties or the mediator may prepare a written agreement that the parties may sign. This written agreement can take the form of agreed “Consent Orders”, or in the case of children, an agreed “Parenting Plan”.

No. You and your former partner can book Patricia without having a solicitor.

Give your solicitor Patricia’s name so that she may conduct your mediation.