» The natural choice for civil and commercial mediation.
TCM LEGAL provides an extensive range of ADR and commercial mediation services. TCM LEGAL provides all parties in dispute with an effective alternative to litigation. Our civil mediation services offer a remedy to disputes which is constructive, efficient, sustainable. and cost effective."TCM LEGAL - keeping conflict out of court."™
Drawing from a panel of the very best accredited commercial and civil mediators from across the UK, TCM LEGAL provides the following mediation services:
- Training for lawyers, judges, barristers and others in the effective use of ADR and mediation.
- ADR services including mediation, early neutral evaluation, arbitration and independent appeals services.
- ADR advice and support for lawyers including advice about using mediation in contractual and other business disputes.
We resolve a wide variety of civil disputes:
- Commercial, contract and other business disputes.
- Disputes arising from mergers and acquisitions.
- Disputes within companies relating to shares, partnerships and strategy.
- Engineering, PFI, construction, planning and building disputes.
- Financial services disputes.
- IPR disputes.
- Housing, landlord, land, property and boundary disputes.
- Personal Injury, clinical and medical negligence disputes.
- Professional negligence disputes.
- Online disputes
- As well as a host of others.
»Please contact us if you are interested in exploring the options of forming a link between your legal practice and TCM LEGAL.
The TCM Legal Mediation Panel
Louis CharlevoisThe Dispute Resolution Regulations 2004
The Employment Act 2002 (Dispute Resolution) Regulations 2004 have been created to reduce the number of workplace disputes being taken to Employment Tribunal (ET). The new regulations place substantial emphasis on the resolution of grievances and disciplinary matters within the workplace. TCM can help all parties reach a resolution through mediation. In particular we can:- Provide independent mediation experts to facilitate the statutory meetings between the disputing parties.
- Provide qualified and independent experts to chair your appeals panel.
- Provide independent and ongoing support to enable all parties to restore the employment and the psychological contract.
- Support and assist with the development of compromise agreements (if appropriate).
- We can also provide fully certified and experienced investigators to undertake internal investigations.
The Gibbons Review
The Gibbons review of the Dispute Resolution Regulations (2004) recommends that the regulations be repealed and that employers and employees should instead be encouraged to use mediation to resolve workplace disputes»click here to download the Gibbons review document. - 'Better Dispute Resolution'
»click here to download the DTI's consultation document.
The Gibbons review recommends that the Government should:
»click here to download the review document.
- Repeal the statutory dispute resolution procedures set out in the Dispute Resolution Regulations (described above)
- Produce clear, simple, non-prescriptive guidelines on grievances, discipline and dismissal in the workplace, for employers and employees.
- Ensure there are incentives to comply with the new guidelines, by maintaining and expanding employment tribunals’ discretion to take into account reasonableness of behaviour and procedure when making awards and cost orders
- Challenge all employer and employee organisations to commit to implementing and promoting early dispute resolution, e.g. through greater use of in-house mediation, early neutral evaluation, and provisions in contracts of employment. Such as those provided by TCM.
- Introduce a new, simple process to settle monetary disputes on issues such as wages, redundancy and holiday pay, without the need for tribunal hearings.
- Increase the quality of advice to potential claimants and respondents, through an adequately resourced helpline and the internet,>
- Make clear the potential benefits of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to achieve more satisfactory and speedier outcomes to employment disputes.
- Redesign the employment tribunal application process, so that potential claimants access it through the helpline and receive advice on alternatives when doing so.
- Offer a free early dispute resolution service, including where appropriate mediation, before a tribunal claim is lodged for those disputes likely to benefit from it. The Government should pilot this approach.
- Offer incentives to use early resolution techniques by giving employment tribunals discretion, to take into account the parties’ efforts to settle the dispute, when making awards and cost orders.
Abolish the fixed periods within which Acas must conciliate.
»click here to download the review document.
