The Gazette 1987

GAZETTE

APRIL 1987

a Court would award your wife as much maintenance as you are pro- posing to pay her", or "Your hus- band will see more of the children under this agreement than if he had gone to Court", and not as "You would be mad to agree to t ha t !" Best of all might be if the lawyer, before giving his client negative ad- vice, 'phoned the mediator, and asked him, " Wh y is the maintenance so high?", or "How was it agreed that the children should spend weekends with their father?" He might get an answer that would satisfy him about the bargain. How mediators help lawyers, I think, is very closely related to how they help their clients. By helping the couples we work with to avoid confrontation and to resolve their problems co-operatively, we also relieve their lawyers of a weight of sad, depressing work, which the legal system is not geared to han- dle; which lawyers undertake reluctantly; for which they are, cer- tainly in comparison to most other legal work, poorly rewarded; and where their very involvement, however well-intentioned they may be, may force their clients into hostile camps. As to how mediators might conduct their practices so as to maximise co-operation with the legal profession, I would be very interested to learn the views of members of the Law Society. As a mediator, it is my ambition to co-operate as fully as possible with the legal profession. •

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