Marian Roberts Marian has been in continuous practice as a family mediator at the SE London Family Mediation Bureau since 1982. She qualified as a social worker and barrister, and is accredited by the Legal Aid Agency, the College of Mediators and the Family Mediation Council Standards Board, she specialises in high conflict disputes over children. Marian has been involved in the wider developments of family mediation over the years including a national training programme, the professional regulatory framework, and mediation initiatives in the context of public law and child abduction. Dr Maria Federica Moscati Maria Federica is a Senior Lecturer in Family Law at the University of Sussex. She is an Italian advocate and holds a PhD from SOAS. She has previously convened and lectured at SOAS, Queen Mary and UCL - University of London, and at the University of Shantou in the People’s Republic of China. Before undertaking her doctorate she worked for Save the Children Italy where she specialized in children’s rights. Her main research interests lie in issues relating to ADR, Access to Justice, Comparative Family Law, Human Rights with focus on children, and LGBTI people.

Scholarly as well as readable, it is a book which will no doubt be regarded as essential reading for lawyers as well as meditators, who should lose no time in acquiring it.

• Chapter 1: Introduction - Marian Roberts and Maria Federica MoscatiChapter 2: Reconstruction of family mediation in a post-justice world - Rosemary Hunter and Anne BarlowChapter 3: Development of the regulatory framework for the practice of mediation in the UK - Lesley SaundersChapter 4: Family mediation: the Irish perspective - Sinéad Conneely and Róisín O’SheaChapter 5: Family mediation: the Scottish perspective - Anne Hall DickChapter 6: Ethics and the family mediation process - Lisa WebleyChapter 7: Models, styles and third parties: a fresh look at three core concepts in family mediation - Barbara WilsonChapter 8: The meaning of power in family mediation: new forms and functions - Marian RobertsChapter 9: Whose truth is it anyway? An imaginative reflection on the place of truth in family mediation - Neil RobinsonChapter 10: The voice of the child in family mediation - Lesley AllportChapter 11: Mediation in children’s cases with a cross-border element – in particular, international child abduction, leave to remove and international contact - Sandra Fenn, Anne-Marie Hutchinson and Angela Lake-CarrollChapter 12: We have the method but still there is so much to do: mediation for gender and sexually diverse relationships - Maria Federica MoscatiChapter 13: Creative paths to practice: helping new mediators to navigate the route to artistry - Lorraine BramwellChapter 14: Teaching family mediation in higher education – what an academic family mediation course could look like - Katherine StylianouChapter 15: Exploring the scope of family mediation in England and Wales - Andrew SimsChapter 16: Domestic abuse and family mediation: what can an experienced mediator tell us? - Tony Whatling, interviewed by the editors

Marian Roberts Marian has been in continuous practice as a family mediator at the SE London Family Mediation Bureau since 1982. She qualified as a social worker and barrister, and is accredited by the Legal Aid Agency, the College of Mediators and the Family Mediation Council Standards Board, she specialises in high conflict disputes over children. Marian has been involved in the wider developments of family mediation over the years including a national training programme, the professional regulatory framework, and mediation initiatives in the context of public law and child abduction. Dr Maria Federica Moscati Maria Federica is a Senior Lecturer in Family Law at the University of Sussex. She is an Italian advocate and holds a PhD from SOAS. She has previously convened and lectured at SOAS, Queen Mary and UCL - University of London, and at the University of Shantou in the People’s Republic of China. Before undertaking her doctorate she worked for Save the Children Italy where she specialized in children’s rights. Her main research interests lie in issues relating to ADR, Access to Justice, Comparative Family Law, Human Rights with focus on children, and LGBTI people.

Scholarly as well as readable, it is a book which will no doubt be regarded as essential reading for lawyers as well as meditators, who should lose no time in acquiring it.

• Chapter 1: Introduction - Marian Roberts and Maria Federica MoscatiChapter 2: Reconstruction of family mediation in a post-justice world - Rosemary Hunter and Anne BarlowChapter 3: Development of the regulatory framework for the practice of mediation in the UK - Lesley SaundersChapter 4: Family mediation: the Irish perspective - Sinéad Conneely and Róisín O’SheaChapter 5: Family mediation: the Scottish perspective - Anne Hall DickChapter 6: Ethics and the family mediation process - Lisa WebleyChapter 7: Models, styles and third parties: a fresh look at three core concepts in family mediation - Barbara WilsonChapter 8: The meaning of power in family mediation: new forms and functions - Marian RobertsChapter 9: Whose truth is it anyway? An imaginative reflection on the place of truth in family mediation - Neil RobinsonChapter 10: The voice of the child in family mediation - Lesley AllportChapter 11: Mediation in children’s cases with a cross-border element – in particular, international child abduction, leave to remove and international contact - Sandra Fenn, Anne-Marie Hutchinson and Angela Lake-CarrollChapter 12: We have the method but still there is so much to do: mediation for gender and sexually diverse relationships - Maria Federica MoscatiChapter 13: Creative paths to practice: helping new mediators to navigate the route to artistry - Lorraine BramwellChapter 14: Teaching family mediation in higher education – what an academic family mediation course could look like - Katherine StylianouChapter 15: Exploring the scope of family mediation in England and Wales - Andrew SimsChapter 16: Domestic abuse and family mediation: what can an experienced mediator tell us? - Tony Whatling, interviewed by the editors

Marian Roberts Marian has been in continuous practice as a family mediator at the SE London Family Mediation Bureau since 1982. She qualified as a social worker and barrister, and is accredited by the Legal Aid Agency, the College of Mediators and the Family Mediation Council Standards Board, she specialises in high conflict disputes over children. Marian has been involved in the wider developments of family mediation over the years including a national training programme, the professional regulatory framework, and mediation initiatives in the context of public law and child abduction. Dr Maria Federica Moscati Maria Federica is a Senior Lecturer in Family Law at the University of Sussex. She is an Italian advocate and holds a PhD from SOAS. She has previously convened and lectured at SOAS, Queen Mary and UCL - University of London, and at the University of Shantou in the People’s Republic of China. Before undertaking her doctorate she worked for Save the Children Italy where she specialized in children’s rights. Her main research interests lie in issues relating to ADR, Access to Justice, Comparative Family Law, Human Rights with focus on children, and LGBTI people.

Scholarly as well as readable, it is a book which will no doubt be regarded as essential reading for lawyers as well as meditators, who should lose no time in acquiring it.

• Chapter 1: Introduction - Marian Roberts and Maria Federica MoscatiChapter 2: Reconstruction of family mediation in a post-justice world - Rosemary Hunter and Anne BarlowChapter 3: Development of the regulatory framework for the practice of mediation in the UK - Lesley SaundersChapter 4: Family mediation: the Irish perspective - Sinéad Conneely and Róisín O’SheaChapter 5: Family mediation: the Scottish perspective - Anne Hall DickChapter 6: Ethics and the family mediation process - Lisa WebleyChapter 7: Models, styles and third parties: a fresh look at three core concepts in family mediation - Barbara WilsonChapter 8: The meaning of power in family mediation: new forms and functions - Marian RobertsChapter 9: Whose truth is it anyway? An imaginative reflection on the place of truth in family mediation - Neil RobinsonChapter 10: The voice of the child in family mediation - Lesley AllportChapter 11: Mediation in children’s cases with a cross-border element – in particular, international child abduction, leave to remove and international contact - Sandra Fenn, Anne-Marie Hutchinson and Angela Lake-CarrollChapter 12: We have the method but still there is so much to do: mediation for gender and sexually diverse relationships - Maria Federica MoscatiChapter 13: Creative paths to practice: helping new mediators to navigate the route to artistry - Lorraine BramwellChapter 14: Teaching family mediation in higher education – what an academic family mediation course could look like - Katherine StylianouChapter 15: Exploring the scope of family mediation in England and Wales - Andrew SimsChapter 16: Domestic abuse and family mediation: what can an experienced mediator tell us? - Tony Whatling, interviewed by the editors