Edited by Masood Ahmed, Associate Professor of Law, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester and David Sixsmith, Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

• ContentsForeword viii1 Introduction to The Place of Mediation within the Modern Civil Justice System: critical perspectives 1Masood Ahmed and David Sixsmith2 Achieving cultural normalisation of mediation in low value civil justice: Lessons from British Columbia 7David Sixsmith and Amy Sixsmith3 Can mandatory mediation cure it all? The Turkish experience 38Fatma Arslan4 Mediation within the Nigerian civil justice system 60Chinwe Egbunike-Umegbolu5 China’s unique mediation experience: The future of judicial mediation in the information age 84Peter C.H. Chan6 Mediation within the modern Dutch civil justice system 105Emma van Gelder and Marc Simon Thomas7 Mediation, the pre-action protocols and judicial ADR activism in the English civil justice system 127Masood Ahmed8 The history and trajectory of mediator neutrality 152Ben Wilson9 The Singapore Convention on Mediation: Five years on 174Bryan Clark and Viktoriia Hamaiunova10 The use of mediation for art disputes: A survey of ‘bespoke’ international mediation schemes 195 Debbie De Girolamo 11 New trends in mediation in Brazilian law 216 Antonio Cabral 12 The near horizons of digitalised dispute resolution 235 Tony Guise and Victoria McCloud Index 256

‘The book is a genuinely good read... this work takes on a vast topic with elegance and focus.’

Edited by Masood Ahmed, Associate Professor of Law, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester and David Sixsmith, Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

• ContentsForeword viii1 Introduction to The Place of Mediation within the Modern Civil Justice System: critical perspectives 1Masood Ahmed and David Sixsmith2 Achieving cultural normalisation of mediation in low value civil justice: Lessons from British Columbia 7David Sixsmith and Amy Sixsmith3 Can mandatory mediation cure it all? The Turkish experience 38Fatma Arslan4 Mediation within the Nigerian civil justice system 60Chinwe Egbunike-Umegbolu5 China’s unique mediation experience: The future of judicial mediation in the information age 84Peter C.H. Chan6 Mediation within the modern Dutch civil justice system 105Emma van Gelder and Marc Simon Thomas7 Mediation, the pre-action protocols and judicial ADR activism in the English civil justice system 127Masood Ahmed8 The history and trajectory of mediator neutrality 152Ben Wilson9 The Singapore Convention on Mediation: Five years on 174Bryan Clark and Viktoriia Hamaiunova10 The use of mediation for art disputes: A survey of ‘bespoke’ international mediation schemes 195 Debbie De Girolamo 11 New trends in mediation in Brazilian law 216 Antonio Cabral 12 The near horizons of digitalised dispute resolution 235 Tony Guise and Victoria McCloud Index 256

‘The book is a genuinely good read... this work takes on a vast topic with elegance and focus.’

Edited by Masood Ahmed, Associate Professor of Law, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester and David Sixsmith, Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

• ContentsForeword viii1 Introduction to The Place of Mediation within the Modern Civil Justice System: critical perspectives 1Masood Ahmed and David Sixsmith2 Achieving cultural normalisation of mediation in low value civil justice: Lessons from British Columbia 7David Sixsmith and Amy Sixsmith3 Can mandatory mediation cure it all? The Turkish experience 38Fatma Arslan4 Mediation within the Nigerian civil justice system 60Chinwe Egbunike-Umegbolu5 China’s unique mediation experience: The future of judicial mediation in the information age 84Peter C.H. Chan6 Mediation within the modern Dutch civil justice system 105Emma van Gelder and Marc Simon Thomas7 Mediation, the pre-action protocols and judicial ADR activism in the English civil justice system 127Masood Ahmed8 The history and trajectory of mediator neutrality 152Ben Wilson9 The Singapore Convention on Mediation: Five years on 174Bryan Clark and Viktoriia Hamaiunova10 The use of mediation for art disputes: A survey of ‘bespoke’ international mediation schemes 195 Debbie De Girolamo 11 New trends in mediation in Brazilian law 216 Antonio Cabral 12 The near horizons of digitalised dispute resolution 235 Tony Guise and Victoria McCloud Index 256

‘The book is a genuinely good read... this work takes on a vast topic with elegance and focus.’