Shari'ah Principles And Mediation


by Geoff Sharp

From the blog mediator blah...blah...

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For those following the debate around the Lord Chief Justice's view that there is no reason why Shari'ah principles should not be the basis for mediation in the UK here is a Muslim perspective which responds to the likes of the Telegraph's Is cosying up to Muslim extremists the best way to defeat terrorism? and the Spectator's A careless talk.

Full text of Lord Phillips' speech at the East London Muslim Centre on July 3 here.

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Geoff Sharp is a Commercial Mediator from Wellington, New Zealand. Geoff works in the Asia Pacific region, including New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand and Pacific Islands. He is a mediator resolving business problems. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and mediates complex and hotly debated litigation covering a wide range of subject matter from insurance disputes to historic sexual abuse claims.

Geoff is author of the award winning blog mediator blah...blah... a mediation blog experiment in reflective practice and the Mediation vBlog Project, a kind of mediation genome project by video blog.



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