Long-form writing on the craft of mediation, the discipline of counsel and the cases — rendered anonymous — that have shaped how we practise.
An essay on the architecture of a successful mediation — the seating, the silences, the sequence of questions — and why the best settlements look, from the outside, like nothing happened at all.
Read the EssayHow structured mediation preserves enterprise value when two founders disagree about the next decade — and the four protocols we keep on the table.
Family disputes outlive the orders that resolve them. A note on drafting agreements that survive the second decade, not just the second hearing.
A practitioner's reading of the institutional shifts, the gaps in enforcement, and where the Act has quietly succeeded outside the headlines.
Anonymised case note: how a three-family ancestral dispute closed in eleven weeks through pre-litigation mediation and a shared surveyor.
The opening position is almost never the real position. A short reflection on the discipline of waiting through the first round of statements.
What the post-pandemic litigation wave has taught us about drafting boilerplate that actually performs when the unforeseeable arrives.
On structured community mediation as an alternative to objection-and-injunction cycles around large infrastructure projects.
A precise reading of the statutory and contractual layers of confidentiality, and where each one ends.
We followed up on a year of concluded matters. The findings on what predicts a durable agreement are clearer than the literature suggests.
Three rules govern everything published in this journal — and everything we choose not to.
We write under the chambers' name, but every case note is anonymised. Confidentiality is not a footnote.
Every essay is grounded in a matter we have handled — not a thinkpiece on a verdict we read about.
We publish less often, at length. The chambers think in decades; the journal follows suit.
A summary of the quarter's writing, the cases we've closed, and one essay we wish more of the bar would read. No promotional material, ever.
"The good lawyer is not the one who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency — but the one who knows when to be silent."