Services
Appointment as mediator, representation inside a mediation — and the clause that prevents the dispute in the first place.
Three Distinct Instructions
1. As Mediator
Appointed jointly by the parties. Neutral: acting for nobody, advising nobody, deciding nothing — running the process and drafting the settlement in the room if one is reached.
2. As Your Solicitor
Instructed by one party going into someone else’s mediation: preparation, position, strategy — and advice on the settlement before you sign it.
3. Mediation Clauses
Drafted into contracts, leases, shareholders’ agreements and OMC documents — the dispute machinery agreed while everyone is still getting along.
The rule governing the first two is absolute: never both in the same dispute. The firm does not mediate where it acts or has acted for a party, and does not act for a party in a dispute it is mediating — which is why the conflicts check runs at first contact, before any substantive conversation about the dispute itself.
Where Mediation Earns Its Place
Commercial Mediation in Ireland
The hub: what mediation is, what the Act changed, the arithmetic against litigation - and when mediation is the wrong room.
OMC & Apartment Scheme Disputes
Service charges, sinking funds, directors and members, managing agents, developer handover, house rules and defects.
The Mediation Act 2017
Section 14, the agreement to mediate, confidentiality and its limits, enforceability, and the costs consequences of refusing.
Shareholder & Partnership Disputes
Deadlock, exits, family companies and the dispute the market should never hear about.
Construction Disputes
Retention, defects, delay, variations and professional-team conflict - including mid-project, while everyone still has to work.
Commercial Contract Disputes
Supply, services, agency, franchise and IT contracts: the relationship saved, or the separation done properly.
Workplace & Employment Mediation
Reporting-line breakdowns, team conflict, professional-practice disputes - before the WRC, and before positions harden.
Farm & Family Business Succession
The asset that cannot be divided by a judgment, and the family that has to keep meeting at Christmas.
Inheritance & Probate Disputes
Wills, executors, and the estate being consumed by the costs of arguing over it.
Commercial Landlord & Tenant
Arrears and arrangements, repairs and dilapidations, breaks, renewals and service-charge disputes.
How a Mediation Day Works
Before, during, after - and what happens when there is no agreement at the end of the day.
Appointing a Mediator
The two roles, conflicts, the agreement to mediate, fees agreed in advance, venues and online mediation.
Two Free Tools
The Mediation Readiness Check asks four honest questions about your dispute and tells you where mediation genuinely fits — including when it does not. The Dispute Route Mapper shows what mediation typically looks like for your kind of dispute and what to bring. Both run entirely on your device; nothing is stored or sent.
Which Instruction Fits?
Send the dispute in ten lines and the names of every party. The conflicts check runs first, the role gets confirmed, and the fees are agreed in writing before anything begins.
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