Abstract

In a typically imaginative and provocative article entitled "Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution In Oil, Gas and Energy Transactions: Commercially Superior to Litigation And Arbitration?", Professor Thomas Wälde raised a number of issues of interest, to some of which, particularly those relating to mediation, I have been invited to respond briefly. At the outset, I should declare, not an allegiance to, but that I was trained by and am accredited by, CEDR; I do this, not so as to suggest that I speak in any way for CEDR (which I do not - all views expressed in this ...