In Kajima v Children’s Ark, the Court of Appeal agreed that uncertain Alternative Dispute Resolution provisions that were a condition precedent to commencing litigation were unenforceable. A UK ...
Alternative dispute resolution, a process by which a neutral third party helps parties reach an agreement without litigation, is more successful during the pre-complaint stage compared with the formal ...
When it comes to major commercial disputes in the English courts, it is now rare to reach trial without the parties attempting to settle through some form of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), ...
Notably, the recent EU Directive 2025/2647 of 16 December 2025 aims to adapt the alternative dispute resolution framework to ...
The origins of modern-day "alternative" dispute resolution (non-adjudicative dispute resolution dubbed ADR) can be found in the ancient records of secular and religious peoples. Thousands of years ago ...
The Council and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement to update, simplify and facilitate the existing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) framework, with the aim of making ...
The Council has today given its final approval to a directive that updates, simplifies, and enhances the existing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) framework. ADR refers to methods for resolving ...