Ideas and field notes on mediation, conflict resolution, case management and legal writing — set down with care.
Every procedural code now begins with the same command: deal with cases justly. What the overriding objective requires of courts and parties alike — and why fairness is best served when the issues are identified as early as possible.
Abimbola Fashina · 10 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
The case management conference is where the court takes control of the action — directions, disclosure, witnesses, experts and costs budgets are all fixed there. Clients who understand the CMC stop seeing procedure as noise and start seeing it as strategy.
Abimbola Fashina · 13 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
Settlement occurs before trial in over 90 per cent of civil cases. The frustrations of litigation — and the Beldam Report’s conclusions — point firmly towards mediation being offered early in the English court process.
Abimbola Fashina · 20 Oct 2023 · 1 min read