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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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