collaborative practice

Rebecca Hawkins and Sarah Smith of the Resolution Parenting After Parting committee passionately believe in the the value of a joined-up, supportive team of family professionals who share a common ethos. Separation is never just legal, and early collaboration between lawyers, mediators, therapists, financial advisers and child-inclusive mediators helps families feel informed, supported and heard. Working together, rather than in opposition, leads to healthier decisions and better long-term outcomes for parents and children.

Lesley Edelstein take a light-hearted look at what it would have been like representing Henry VIII as the ultimate high-stakes divorce client. Beneath the Tudor theatrics, it highlights the value of working as a team and adherence to Resolution’s Code when managing difficult clients while staying ethical, constructive and focused on long-term outcomes.

Teams help clients find the legal and emotional tools to navigate separation with clarity and confidence

This event is free of charge for POD Chairs. This event was formally know as the Pod Liaison Officers Day and we're delighted to reintroduce this to our training calendar. We will be in contact with the PODs soon with details of how to book.

Reality checking expectations and an awareness of the often very emotive nature of these agreemen...

Layering aspects of other processes into the collaborative mix can help deal with imbalances and ...

A specialist collaborative approach running in Melbourne for over a decade provides a cost-effect...

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This advanced hybrid practice model provides an invaluable additional resource to supplement the established family mediation model.

The cost-of-living crisis is multi-faceted and will affect the vast majority of divorces. IFAs wo...

This event is free of charge for Resolution members.

This event is free of charge for Resolution members.

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This is the landing page for all resources for our collaborative members. Here you can download a...

This advanced hybrid practice model provides an invaluable additional resource to supplement the established family mediation model.

This event is free of charge for Resolution members.

The focus of this workshop was to explore some of the tricky issues which can occur in collaborat...

This is available free of charge for Resolution members.

Family practice is changing now more rapidly than it ever has done before. Just imagine prior to ...

The recently launched Resolution ‘Wellbeing in Family Law Report’ makes sobering, if not unsurpri...

I was delighted to have been able to attend so many great sessions during the week of Resolution’s National Conference this year. As an enthusiastic collaborative practitioner and arbitrator, I was keen to sign up to the session on the new collaborative participation agreement, hosted by Angela Lake-Carroll and Adele Ballantyne.

This is available free of charge for Resolution members.

In this section, you'll find Resolution's suite of resources for collaborative practitioners. This includes information on the scope of collaborative practice, how you become a collaborative practitioner, routes for professional development and much more.

This is available free of charge for Resolution members.

A Financial Initial Assessment Meeting is a financial health check that is best carried out early...

Conducting business over online video meetings will become the new normal during the COVID-19 pan...

Ruth Hare, Director of Reach Psychology Ltd and Associate Member of Resolution reveals how her pe...

As dispute resolution practitioners, we constantly find ourselves navigating private aspects of h...

In this podcast, Ian Hawkins, Mary Waring, and Phil O'Connor discuss the many benefits that can b...

Fiona Connah reports back on the seminar “The Rise of the Neutral – a systemic approach”, present...

This three-day foundation course will explain and demystify the collaborative process, show how i...

The course will focus on the importance for lawyers and clients in making the dynamic shift towar...

This one day course from Jacinta Gallant will focus on conflict skills for family professionals. It explores how asking about the parties' hopes and diving deeply into their perceived threats can bring fresh air to our family law work.

In this article on collaborative practice for The Review Brian Cantwell and Mary Shaw talk about ...

Top tips on running collaborative cases and getting the best out of teams

Resolution provides a template Participation Agreement and Addendum (dealing with remotely conduc...

Statement: Collaborative practice differs greatly from adversarial dispute resolution practice. I...

In this video, Jo O'Sullivan, from Resolution's DR Committee, talks through how she built a succe...

The course will focus on the importance for lawyers and clients in making the dynamic shift towards working collaboratively.

The collaborative process helps you and your ex reach agreement more quickly than court and with the support of a multi disciplinary team.

The Collaborative Practice Working Party was set up to engage and support practitioners involved in collaborative work.

The Dispute Resolution committee works across all areas of family dispute resolution, leading innovation in process and practice.

Rob Parker gave a presentation detailing how collaborative lawyers in North Hampshire market their skills to clients, at the 2019 Pod Liasion Officer conference.

Nick Wynn-Williams wrote up this report.

How do collaborative lawyers convert leads into cases? Collaborative Working Group co-chair Tasha Bevan-Stewart presented a talk about this at the Pod Liason Officer day, 2019.

Ashley Palmer and Ian Hawkins wrote up this report.

Bernadette Hoy presented a session at PLO day 2019 looking at the quasi-judicial clause in the participation agreement and asked if it prevented clients and/or solicitors adopting the collaborative process.

Sandy Edwards, from Shropshire Collaborative Lawyers Group, wrote up this report.

At the Pod Liaison Officer conference 2019, Collaborative Working Group co-chair Ian Hawkins asked the question do we screen out some clients because it is too difficult or because we don’t have the answers?

Kathryn Ferris wrote up this report from the day.